abasement
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Abasement training at Andover cannot have gone that deep.
From Time Magazine Archive
Being unclothed of our own Wisdom, and knowing the Abasement of the Creature, therein we find that Power to arise, which gives Health and Vigour to us.
From John Woolman's Journal by Woolman, John
A. Abasement of the people, fruits of the, i.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn
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)
Abasement would have been a joy to her just then, was almost a necessity, and yet there was pride in her, the decent pride of a pure-natured woman who has never let herself be soiled.
From The Call of the Blood by Lowell, Orson
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