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abasing
▪ I. abasing, vbl. n. (əˈbeɪsɪŋ) [f. abase v. + -ing1.] The action of lowering or depressing, a. physically. b. in mind or feeling. c. of debasing or depreciating the currency (obs.). Now mostly gerundial.1555 Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 298 The inestimable loss it [England] suffered by the ...
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abashing
abashing, vbl. n. (əˈbæʃɪŋ) Also 4 abasshyng; and in Northern writers, 5– abaysing, abaisyng, abasing; not to be confounded with abasing. [f. abash v. + -ing1.] The act of confounding, or putting to dismay; the state of confusion, dismay, or astonishment; abashment. Now mostly gerundial.c 1374 Chauc...
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Pierre Charron
The belief that what God sends is all good, and that all the bad is from ourselves is the abasing of humanity and the exalting of God.
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self-abasing
self-aˈbasing, ppl. a. [self- 1 f.] Marked by, involving, or requiring self-abasement.1656 Owen Mortif. Sin xii. (1668) 128 This self-abasing Consideration. 1793 Cowper Let. to J. Johnson Wks. 1837 XV. 253 The self-abasing doctrines of the gospel. 1822 Jas. MacDonald Mem. Jos. Benson 330 Their joyfu...
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In the Night (ballet)
George Balanchine did not like In the Night, as Jowitt put it, "he couldn't bear to see one abasing herself before a man."
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abasure
† aˈbasure Obs. [f. abase v. + -ure; of Eng. formation, after words like eras-ure, seiz-ure.] The action of abasing; the condition of being abased; humiliation.1653 Manton Ep. James ii. 1 Wks. 1871 IV. 181 They offered injury and contumely to them, because of their outward abasure and despicableness...
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John Marston (playwright)
Oblivioni Sacrum" ("Sacred to Oblivion"), which was probably composed by Marston, and, according to Joshua Scodel, the short "epitaph is thus both self-abasing
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abasement
abasement (əˈbeɪsmənt) [f. abase v. after Fr. abaissement: see -ment.] 1. The action of abasing, lowering, casting down, or humbling, in rank or character; humiliation.1561 T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. i. xiii. 47 (1634) The time was not yet come of his abasement. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie 266 (1869)...
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Greg Burk of LA Weekly said that the book stood as "the most self-abasing and funny piece of rock mythology ever written."
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basing
▪ I. † ˈbasing, n. Obs. rare—1. [f. base n.1 + -ing.] Foundation, base.c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. A. 991 Bantelez..on basyng boun.▪ II. † ˈbasing, vbl. n. Obs. [f. base v.1 + -ing1.] The action of base v.1; abasing, debasement.1581 W. Stafford Exam. Compl. ii. (1876) 55 The basing or rather the corruptin...
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The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem Call'd the Lady's Dressing Room
In his poem he attacks womankind, abasing them as vile and disgusting creatures.
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humiliating
humiliating, ppl. a. (hjuːˈmɪlɪeɪtɪŋ) [f. humiliate v. + -ing1.] That humiliates; that lowers one's dignity or self-respect; abasing, mortifying.1757 Herald I. ix. 147 To have demanded so humiliating a sacrifice of decorum. 1776 Adam Smith W.N. ii. iii. (1869) I. 345 Bankruptcy is perhaps the greate...
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Strange Currencies
Melody Maker wrote that it "puts the accompaniment to "Everybody Hurts" through a cheap and brutal amplifier and replaces universal balm with the self-abasing
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undertaking
▪ I. ˈundertaking, vbl. n. (Also ˌunderˈtaking.) [f. as prec. + -ing1.] 1. † a. Enterprise, energy. Obs.1375 Barbour Bruce ix. 484 Bot he wes outrageous hardy, And of so hye vndirtaking, That he neuir had none abasing Of multitude of men. c 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 111 Þe Persiens & þe...
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Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya
Supplication in repelling the trickery of enemies
Supplication in fear
Supplication in pleading and abasement
Supplication in imploring God
Supplication in Abasing
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