abasement
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Abasement training at Andover cannot have gone that deep.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abasement, shame, defeat, fear, inaction, loneliness, yearning—all these she had drunk in her cup of suffering, but in the dregs there remained one more drop of gall—jealousy.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)
A. Abasement of the people, fruits of the, i.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn
Abasement, and misery, and poverty, and sin, may, and all do, contribute to lower the tone of our moral existence; but the principle that has been planted by nature, can be eradicated by nature only.
From Jack Tier by Cooper, James Fenimore
Abasement hath reached its lowest depth: Where are the emblems of Thy glory, O Glory of the worlds?
From Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by Báb
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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