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abasement

[uh-beys-muhnt] / əˈbeɪs mənt /


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Look through the opening, and you will find Saar rescuing the black female figure from her destiny of abasement.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019

A lesser songwriter would either paint the couple in a false glow of romance or wallow in the tawdry abasement.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2019

It plants a provocative idea — that abasement is the gateway to adulthood.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017

Public atonement requires public abasement and for public abasement, you need television.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2016

Clyde’s fiendish mind has not stopped at so simple an abasement, however.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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