| 单词 | self-abasement |
| 例句 | There—and note the nice rising tricolon at the very outset— you can see a precise shaping of the speaker’s relationship with the audience, and a fastidious, slightly bogus, self-abasement. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It swelled and swelled until all the loss, all the grief, all the loneliness and self-abasement of her life washed away. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Sometimes he thought of Antonapoulos with awe and self-abasement, sometimes with pride—always with love unchecked by criticism, freed of will. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She brings us deep into the folds of her relentless pursuit—“marching boldly into self-abasement,” in the words of her friend, the poet Eileen Myles. This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In his earlier films, he comically dramatizes a puckishly exuberant religion, in which sweet but giddy joys mesh with steadfast faith, humiliation and self-abasement with ecstatic devotion. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z This is a tale of reverence, and a contemplation of whether that state — with its mingled elements of devotion, self-abasement and love — is possible as a secular exercise. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Once merely embarrassing and ridiculous, the annual White House correspondents’ dinner is poised to tip over into journalistic self-abasement. Cancel dinner plans. Send ‘nerd prom’ to the history books. 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z This may be true, but Thersites, who escapes death at Hector’s hands by self-abasement, bids us look even farther afield for the resonance of this dark drama. Trump, Troilus, and Cressida 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z This fondness for someone who egged on the mob that threatened to kill him is an especially degrading form of self-abasement that’s embarrassing to watch. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z It is saying something that in highly physical interpretations, Ms. Kerr and Mr. Farmer are willing to go as far as their demented characters demand in self-aggrandizement and self-abasement. Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z If Williams is to resurrect himself as a media icon, a lengthy course of ritual self-abasement will be required. Downfall of a simulated celebrity: Brian Williams, Max Headroom and the performance of credibility 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z And while self-abasement is part of the comedian’s toolbox, there’s something depressing about watching as a chortling Michelle airs her unmentionable area while spraying herself with self-tanner. Review: The Boss Demotes Melissa McCarthy 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z We can respond by atoning—with prayer, with sacrifice, with self-abasement. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Though “Trainwreck” is a robust comedy, ranging from genial to zingy to uproarious, it’s essentially a romantic melodrama of self-abasement, self-deception, and self-discovery. Everyone Is a "Trainwreck" 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z As the novel progresses, it complicates our efforts to establish the sequence of events, to distinguish self-invention from self-abasement, even to know exactly what Leo is really saying aloud to his astonished witnesses. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Greenwell’s narrator is a poet of self-abasement, keenly attuned to the notion of size, of taking up too much space, and its centrality to queer experience. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Facing incessant doubts about his fitness for office, Mr. Walker tried self-abasement. 5 Georgia Takeaways: Scandals Still Matter, and Trump Faces Blowback 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z And James H. Sweet, the protagonist of academia’s most recent pratfall, is a maestro of self-abasement. Opinion | In the sandbox also known as academia, it’s the golden age of the grovel 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The 14th-century saint Catherine of Siena is famous for drinking the pus of a woman’s open sore in an act of holy self-abasement. How Disgust Explains Everything 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Then again, self-abasement is nothing new for Mr. McCarthy. Opinion | House Republicans put party over country, once again 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Pence, whatever else he accomplishes in life, has managed to set new standards for tolerance and self-abasement. Column: Kamala Harris, the incredible disappearing vice president 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z For the spiritually vigilant, this process requires authentic humility, a quality described by the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides as the middle path between pride and shiflut, or "self-abasement." Yom Kippur is a reminder to Americans that humility is good for your health 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z And, after four years of cartoonish self-abasement, Republicans with presidential aspirations will have an incentive to help take him down. Opinion | The Post-Presidency of a Con Man 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Is this the pride that bases itself on moral laceration, and gratifies itself with creepy self-abasement? I created a character called Will then set him running | Will Self 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In essence, the stunt was a high-profile display of fealty to Trump, who measures loyalty by a willingness to commit acts of self-abasement on his behalf. A Clarifying, Upending Week in the Impeachment Inquiry 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Moreover, because self-abasement in China can carry reputational costs in the United States, corporations increasingly speak with a pro-Beijing message, so they don’t have to look like they’re caving when the party calls them out. Perspective | How China gets American companies to parrot its propaganda 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Carson’s shameless sucking up to Trump, an act of self-abasement on live television, was hard to watch. “I’m Winning”: Donald Trump’s Calculated Racism 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Usually it involves the posturing inherent to partisanship and the self-abasement of endless fundraising. Opinion | House leaders should lay the groundwork for impeachment 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Kevin Young: But he also is well aware—“to serve it up like // a eulogy or a tale of my or your own / suffering”—you know, some kind of self-abasement. Craig Morgan Teicher Reads Forrest Gander 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The lie is her tragic belief that her public self-abasement will win her any real affection from anyone. The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In dramatizing the fury with which Nisha’s parents respond to their daughter’s perceived self-abasement, Haq effectively throws it back in their faces. Review: Home becomes a prison in the tense cross-cultural drama ‘What Will People Say’ 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “Mr. Smith’s self-abasement would be comical if it weren’t dangerous,” said Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. Marriott and other firms bow to China to protect business interests 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z None of this was especially pleasurable, at least not in the bodily sense: the gratifications were cerebral, and tied to self-abasement, as she herself acknowledges. Has #MeToo gone too far, or not far enough? The answer is both | Laura Kipnis 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z But, like all great buffoons, Dina’s vortex of self-abasement is her gift to us. ‘Dina Martina Christmas Show’: The queen of deranged holiday cheer rides again at Seattle’s Re-bar 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z “Once merely embarrassing and ridiculous, the annual White House correspondents’ dinner is poised to tip over into journalistic self-abasement,” she wrote on Sunday. With Obama gone, media crybabies mull boycotting WHCA dinner 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Forty-two minutes sets a Guinness record in diplomatic self-abasement. America’s Year of Living Dangerously 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z In fact, the Hollywood demand is for more self-abasement, less spirituality, less principle, less standards. Hoffman, addiction and a 'broken culture' 2014-02-04T17:31:28Z The doctrine of a fallen nature could be upheld, and the blessed state of self-abasement maintained, without a daily reminder in the shape of a Bible name of evil repute. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z While her mother continued to curse, she went on fawning and pleading with filial self-abasement, although not without an effect of trying to soothe an angry baby. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z He found that extremely reinvigorating, and he went on up the High Street to face the inevitable terrors of the office, a faint touch of pride in his depravity tempering his extreme self-abasement. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z There are some worthy men, with whom this little infirmity is an intermittent, alternating, like fever and ague, between self-conceit and self-abasement. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Who could restrain their tears, though they may have been tears of anger that people should be allowed to practise such ignoble acts of self-abasement. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z My mind is a hell—I cannot reflect—I feel all despair and self-abasement. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z The man is spectacular, compelling, in all violation of his own doctrines of self-abasement. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Once outside the Sinclairs' home, Palmer strode away down the street, for the first time in his life, perhaps, in an agony of self-abasement. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z The longer I stayed, the more my sense of self-abasement grew. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z No Umbrian has ever sunk to such depths of self-abasement, and during all the first days of the "Perdono" festival they keep aloof, waiting till the pilgrims' departure before obtaining their indulgences. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The thought of my helplessness came over me with waves of agonising self-abasement and disgust, till my nerves seemed to crack and my brain spin round. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z He paused, then added, with in his voice and manner a suggestion of utter self-abasement which was in itself pathetic, "And the worst I've still to add". A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z She felt, alas! the most painful of all feelings, next to that of self-abasement, the consciousness of the abasement of one to whom she had all her life looked up with love and veneration. Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter 2011-11-04T02:00:17.120Z By the time Peggy reached the Hall her self-abasement had evaporated, and her usual good spirits reasserted themselves. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z Each of the wild, broken words—words of self-abasement, self-blame, self-rebuke, which Lingard uttered, holding both her hands in his firm grasp,—meant to her what fluttering white flags of surrender mean to besiegers. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z In these hymns we see the author in his characteristic meekness of spirit, self-abasement, pure and ardent devotion, and all-sustaining faith in the wise and perfect government of God. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z He did love his Master, and had run the risk of arrest and death to get near Him again, but his humiliation was complete and his self-abasement intense. The Making of an Apostle 2011-07-26T02:00:19.187Z Astonishment, rapture, awe, even self-abasement, are among the emotions evoked by sublimity. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z In profound self-abasement the child entered, threw herself upon her knees before the altar, and closed her eyes. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z And here the frantic woman cast herself at his feet and bowed her head to the earth in an attitude of despairing supplication almost oriental in intense self-abasement. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z If, without self-abasement, I intercede and promise for you, I must first be convinced that we dare trust you. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z There is real grandeur in this self-abasement—a dignity full of impressiveness in this confession of shame. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Doubtless, at night, when the holy father humbles himself in solitude before God, his self-abasement is as much deeper than that of ordinary Christians as his exaltation is greater. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z What had she, in her self-abasement and earnest reachings after a nobler life than he had ever thought of, or aspired to, to do with his masquerading tricks and persiflage? Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Recovering from this self-abasement, she again turned toward Columbus, demanding earnestly— "And you, Se�or—do you sail with the wish and hope of serving God?" Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z I leaped at once from the abyss of self-abasement to the maddest height of presumption. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z It’s a board game he created that tests players’ knowledge of theater and their tolerance for self-abasement. City Critic: You?ve Got 2 Minutes to Cry. Go! 2011-06-04T00:37:25Z A flood of burning, passionate words burst from his lips—of endearment, of self-abasement, and promises which he intended, come what might, should be kept. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z But as she spoke, as she sat there before him now, white, passive, disdainful even in her self-abasement, he knew that his hour—Love's hour—had not yet struck. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He dropped his eyes in deep self-abasement, but he raised them again in self-sacrifice and unselfish love. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z There was a painful sense of my own unregenerate condition; a terrible self-reproach, self-loathing, self-abasement; and with tears of contrition and humility I prostrated myself on my face. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z At the end of ten years spent in self-abasement of this sort, Jacopone entered the lowest rank of the Franciscan brotherhood. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The sublime calls forth emotions of self-abasement, reverence, and even fear. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z There was no attempt on his part to justify himself, and his self-abasement broke down the barrier of resentment which up to now she had set up against him. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z If she could only cry out and proclaim to them all the unworthy part she had performed, she would feel some sense of relief in the self-abasement it must bring to her. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z I felt the self-abasement, the contrition, the inexpressible longing. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Isabel solemnly believed in Clotilde and the glittering Duchess, and was steeped in self-abasement and humiliation when she compared herself with those vague and splendid creatures. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z In her self-abasement she sank upon her knees. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Or was she mistaken—abashed—remembering what she had written him in a bitter hour of fear and self-abasement? The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Then Lydia in her self-abasement and grief wept bitterly. Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z Now the cause of this great self-abasement, was that profound sense with which they were affected, that, on account of their sin, they deserved an eternal curse and condemnation. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z To some minds, sympathetic, proud, sensitive the office of the confessor must be full of self-abasement, pain, and horror. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z They believe themselves to be entrepreneurs and will battle against the economic headwind to the point of self-abasement to avoid admitting otherwise. America's new poor: the end of the middle-class dream 2010-10-12T21:00:00Z It is not an umbrella under which self-abasement, cruelty and hypocrisy can claim shelter. Cyber-bullying: bullying by another name 2010-10-06T08:00:00Z This astonishing outpouring of pride completes the circle of English self-abasement. Holland and Spain prepare to battle for right to join the elite 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z If to this there be added, external contempt and reproaches, they sink the soul yet more deeply into self-abasement, and by consequence bring her so much the nearer to God. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z First off, this is neither a time for paroxysms of self-abasement nor for public displays of arrogance. Greek debt crisis: Let's not return to the status quo 2010-05-13T12:25:00Z Self-interest degenerates into self-abasement in the Arab counsel, "If the king at noon-day says it is night, behold the stars." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources It did not need much self-abasement to accord her the superiority. The Undying Past Peggy's cutting and just rebuke roused my pride, and filled me with self-abasement at the same instant. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 This inward sense of self-abasement David expresses when he speaks of “eating ashes like bread, and mingling his drink with weeping.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Never, even in those days of self-abasement, did the Senate sink so low as in its grovelling homage to the servile minister. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius "And while you were doing all this for us, we ... honestly, Mr. Grider, I am ashamed to tell you what we were saying of you," said the young woman in penitent self-abasement. Stranded in Arcady He felt a bitter resentment against this sort of self-abasement. The Undying Past The effects of his self-abasement and the strong liquor had worn away. The Mystery of Evelin Delorme A Hypnotic Story At the same time, there was nothing like sternness, gloom, or despondency connected with his sincere and profound self-abasement. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Senate and people vied with one another in self-abasement. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius "Well, you can't expect her to remain true to a creature like me," said Michael, declaring his self-abasement. Sinister Street, vol. 1 He would not light his lamp; he would lie there in the gloom till his pain and self-abasement should have worn themselves out. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel This is the piety he preaches; not the morbid introspection that leads to no useful end, the state of brooding melancholy, the timorous self-abasement, the anxious speculation as to some other condition of being. Maxims and Reflections Catching the wicked wink at the tail of his chief's eye, the mate sheered off in seeming self-abasement, and left the involuntary "stewardess" face to face with Brant. A Traitor's Wooing And the deeper it sinks down by self-abasement in the presence of God's beauty, like a streak of lightning, the quicker it is caught up and rapt out of itself. Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order Had it been Rosser's, she thought, the act would have loomed magnificent; as it was, the combined self-abasement—the devotion, the allegiance of it—was crude and colourless. Love's Usuries In the one case I incurred the pleasing burden of gratitude to my obligers; in the second I should have bent beneath the weight of shameful self-abasement. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second This sent her off again into the depths of self-abasement. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance "I am not worthy," he murmured, in real self-abasement. East Angels In the meanwhile Anne in the Tower continued her strange behaviour, at times arrogantly claiming all her royal prerogatives, at times reduced to hysterical self-abasement and despair. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History This was so new to her that she sank down upon the floor in utter despair and self-abasement. Anne Other people, when detected, show some sense of shame and self-abasement. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second She tried to pray, and into her whole being came a profound silent sense of self-abasement, absorbing her as if it were a prayer. The New Warden "And have they, who render all this homage, no shame for their self-abasement?" Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Think of a man who could say to the wife of his bosom, the goddess before whom he worshipped with preposterous self-abasement—'One word, and home you go!' Captain Macedoine's Daughter There was a look of self-abasement, of shame and sorrow in his attitude inexplicable to Cynthia. A Life Sentence A Novel For a space he sat in silent self-abasement; then as his horse champed impatiently on the bit, he tightened the rein and rode slowly down to the little lake. The Song of the Wolf "I was abominable to you then," persists Roger, with the deepest self-abasement. Portia or By Passions Rocked But even then, in the midst of her self-abasement, another voice answered that it was no shame to love a good and true man, and that Lamberto Lamberti was both. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome It is impossible to describe the self-abasement, the grief, the joy, the shame, the hope, and the fear which filled the mind of this poor man. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales He collapsed in his chair into a little heap of whining fear and self-abasement. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas "I regret to say it is," says Mr. Kelly, with intensest self-abasement. Rossmoyne She crossed herself in self-abasement, struggled long-time against such a belief. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages He threw himself down on his knees before her, in passionate self-abasement, and lifted his ardent eyes pleadingly to her face. Under False Pretences A Novel Every cheek should wear the blush of shame—every head be bowed in self-abasement! Thoughts on African Colonization And on this pinnacle of austere virtue he remained, thereby reducing Ethel to a state of self-abasement, which spoke well for his chances of mastery in the married life which loomed before him. Brooke's Daughter A Novel As Elsie spoke, the man turned, and strolled slowly past us, with that ineffable insolence which is the other side of the flunkey's insufferable self-abasement. Miss Cayley's Adventures It is like a windfall of Divine Grace, so mild and searching; never more so than in moments of self-abasement, when the will is wholly obscured.” La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Percival," she said—and her tone expressed great pain and profound self-abasement—"when I promised to marry you—someday, you will remember that I never said I loved you. Under False Pretences A Novel The man who can bow down and worship the work of his hands shows a morbid craving for self-abasement. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' Instead of defiance, Rome taught them reverence; instead of pride, self-abasement; instead of the worship of delight, the worship of sorrow. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe It did not occur to me in that moment of self-abasement that he wished to shake an 'inmate's' hand. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography And when she smothered that self-abasement, 145it was a matter of will. The Missourian This self-abasement is the seal of the authenticity of his egotism. Whitman A Study The primitive stages of his thinking did not allow for any relation between himself and the woman who had released the dam of self-abasement. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author I was insolent in my arrogance, and the scorn of this man was necessary to my self-abasement. Pepita Ximenez By which I meant her heaving shoulders, streaming eyes, and penitent self-abasement. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography We must buy up opportunities with all our might, paying not only time and money, but love, and patience, and self-denial, and self-abasement, and labour, and pains-taking. What She Could How could she endure that fearful pang of humiliation and self-abasement that wrung her soul, and would grow stronger with every proof of kindness that her husband could give? A Noble Woman The good understanding was restored by this ready self-abasement. The Quality of Mercy Standing, looking at her with eyes that hungered and adored, he began to speak in wonder and self-abasement. The Shepherd of the North She groped for and dropped into a wicker chair, her head sinking in shame and self-abasement. In the Shadow of the Hills Love in Light ye there shall find; For with thrill of joy behold One—woman-born—upon that Throne, And, with deepest self-abasement, in His beauties read your own. Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes "I want to be convinced," he thought again and again, "of my own injustice—it is right that I should endure this self-abasement as a punishment for doubting a woman who is beyond suspicion." A Noble Woman It was an expression of religious sorrow and self-abasement. The Social Principles of Jesus Divinity is not a sad, a solemn, a solitary autocrat demanding selfish tribute, blind allegiance, inexorable self-abasement. The Crimson Tide A Novel The abominable doctrine taught in the pulpit, the press, in books and elsewhere, is that the whole duty of women is self-abasement and self-sacrifice. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Then he spoke, and a feeling of self-abasement was reflected in his words. Whispering Smith “I will; I’ll go,” said the man, with a soft chuckle intended for self-abasement. Dr. Sevier For all my enemies of a week ago turned flatterers and flunkeys, bowing, grovelling, fawning, contemptible in their self-abasement, but quite useful to my purposes. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess He writhed in the anguish of his love and rage and self-abasement. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Out of the whirlwind there came a Voice—the voice of the Infinite—and before its thunder the souls of Job and his friends bowed in self-abasement. Treasure Valley The liberalism of Mr. Jenkins is the liberalism of state aid, of self-abasement, of incapacity and indolence'; and leads straight to sentimental communism. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice The man made a ludicrous gesture of self-abasement. Dr. Sevier The giant groaned in self-abasement, and beat his chest with his great fists. In the Morning of Time Thorndike, McDougall, and others have reported upon the original tendencies in the individual to domination and submission or to self-assertion and self-abasement. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Every time he met the man's disdainful gaze, the remembrance of his accusation returned, and with it a feeling of self-abasement. Treasure Valley At the same time he affects deep humility, great self-abasement, and preaches of love and faith. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Her heart was in a tumult of grief and self-abasement. In Orchard Glen Next, as always, came contrition, and deep self-abasement. 'Lizbeth of the Dale But no one will expect us to go so far in self-abasement and humility, as to submit our intellects to all sorts of dogmas. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Mabel's heart beat quicker; there was a subtle, delicious flattery in such self-abasement before her of a man she admired so much. The Giant's Robe Sandy had been too long accustomed to self-abasement in the world he had left to question the authority of the man who spoke to him. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk But all this self-abasement on the part of Josephine and all the self-indulgence of Napoleon could not do more than postpone the judgment day. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) Come, and as you fall down in self-abasement, the glory of the Holy One will shine upon you. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy The priest, in the moment's pause which had followed these words of self-abasement, had seen something across the river that claimed his attention, nevertheless he gravely encouraged the penitent. Ringfield A Novel Long afterward, when the original picture has faded as though it had never been, one may read his printed work, and wonder, in abject self-abasement, by what miracle it was ever printed. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern No Circassian slave, afraid of bowstring and sack, could have entreated her master's clemency with deeper self-abasement. Vixen, Volume III. All that saved me from utter self-abasement was the fact that it had occurred at a time when I was at such a low ebb physically, by reason of illness. How to Cook Husbands It added to their fear and self-abasement, as they rolled their slow eyes around and upward. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West A man of my own acquaintance who was sunk in self-abasement for many years, was roused to a salutary conceit by no other tonic. Chimney-Pot Papers When he saw Olga standing there, a mute statue of despair, he was filled with pity for her and self-abasement. The Devil A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience It caused self-abasement and prostration of soul, such as we never before witnessed. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Ah! change the scene as you will, it is always the same performance—pretension, meanness, readiness to bow down, the courtier's appetite for self-humiliation and self-abasement. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 The writer is the rather desirous of enforcing this reflection; because he can truly declare, that he has found no consideration so efficacious in producing in his own mind the deepest self-abasement. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. It was a continual, nagging contention between self-abasement and hostility. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Always intoxicated by a peep into the royal closet, Pitt burst into tears and replied in words of absurd self-abasement. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration They feel that it was their sin which caused the agony that broke the heart of the Son of God, and this thought will lead them to self-abasement. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Not even its hero's temporary self-abasement could put it out of conceit with him. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography What lively emotions are they calculated to excite in us of deep self-abasement, and abhorrence of our sins; and of humble hope, and firm faith, and heavenly joy, and ardent love, and active unceasing gratitude! A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Prayer brought comfort and a passionate healing self-abasement. Robert Elsmere Indeed, there was a visible air of self-abasement about Lieutenant Weil as he crossed the wide chamber. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights As it was, he was forced to make his petition lamely, calmly, shorn of all that outward self-abasement which the case demanded. The Valley of the Kings He looked pale, but otherwise unconcerned, and those who looked-for traces of shame and self-abasement in his face were sorely disappointed. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Does that lofty carriage, do those averted eyes, and that sullen lip, speak of self-abasement? The Young Maiden She bowed herself again with a quiet burst of tears, and an indescribable self-abasement. Robert Elsmere Theodora's sorrow and shame were intense; intense, too, was her power of self-abasement. Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen His next was one of self-abasement before Allah. The Valley of the Kings In the torment of my self-abasement this morning, I have clung to that one comfort: That I love you with a love which a truly worthless man could not feel. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play I then, a sinner, will take this light inconvenience in a generous way, pleased at the opportunity of disciplining myself, and with self-abasement, as needing a severe penitence. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) Now is the time when he is in danger of not discerning the Lord's Body, of receiving the gift of life as a thing of course, without awe, gratitude, and self-abasement. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) His diary redounded in dismal groans and self-abasement: he wrote out in detail his covenants with God. Customs and Fashions in Old New England Under the cloisters of the holy pile were his bones interred, with a degree of pomp and ostentation that little accorded with the lowliness and self-abasement of this man of many sorrows. Rookwood A pitiable heroine, an unstable creature tossed about from one compassion to another, from a contemptible dissatisfaction here to a half-hypocritical idea of reparation there, and now to self-abasement! Sacrifice But in all her self-abasement and distress of mind Viva Winthrop was clear-headed on the question of the dissolution of that engagement. A War-Time Wooing A Story We adjutants about the palace are not much given to self-abasement of any sort. Paul Patoff You may see this church, looking somewhat dilapidated—I should say ashamed of itself—as it stands there a monument to the Bohemian nation's self-abasement. From a Terrace in Prague A sense of moral imperfection and guilt,—and that humility and devout self-abasement which arise out of it. The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings He was so amazed at it all—the swift interchange of penitence to self-abasement, languor, challenge, suspicion, wrath, and accusation—that he stood dumfounded, not knowing what to think. Despair's Last Journey The Assembly, however, were satisfied with the humiliation to which the Doctor had been subjected, and would not compel him to further self-abasement. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion Recognising that my humility was sincere, he desired me to continue my confession on condition that I realised my own self-abasement. Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 When he had displayed these signs of ruin and self-abasement his creditors would not sue him, but he would never be able to borrow money again. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Only it must not be forgotten that there can be no reformation without penitence, and no penitence without self-abasement. The Essentials of Spirituality And at this whatever manhood was within the man fled for the time being, and he, kneeling to raise her from her self-abasement, also lifted up his voice and wept bitterly. Despair's Last Journey In the depths of his self-abasement, Scott Brenton did not hesitate to ply himself with ugly adjectives. The Brentons On one occasion, with feelings of timorous self-abasement, he ventured to remonstrate with his friend, but the effort was repelled. Post Haste Thus in reaching a conclusion which tallies with our rarest moments of super-normal insight we discover that we have reached a conclusion which tallies with our moments of profoundest self-abasement. The Complex Vision They who after many wanderings were coming back to their first love, and they who had never come before, alike took his words of self-abasement as their own. Shenac's Work at Home And he believed the things it was ordained that he should believe, and he bowed his head in prayer with tears of penitence and self-abasement. Despair's Last Journey If the worshipful magistrate flattered himself that the reprimand he had addressed to Reginald that afternoon would move his hearer to self-abasement or penitence, he had sadly miscalculated the power of his own language. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life They prostrated themselves before their fellow-man with no sense of self-abasement, and the chivalrous homage with which they gratified him, was considered as imparting dignity to themselves. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 A frequent access of dejection, self-abasement, distrust, often goes with a character that is energetic, persevering, effective, and reasonably happy. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs There is a wide difference between pampered beauty in distress and a female prisoner in self-abasement. The Hand in the Dark But with this self-abasement toward his God Job mingled tenderest regard for man. Man of Uz, and Other Poems Then to say fortune would be an exceeding self-abasement—one, that between us, is not needed; and I believe I must impute it to skill. The Two Admirals And Ernest,—with what deep self-abasement he acknowledged the errors into which blind passion had led him. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The girl was always on guard; he could make no apology; he could hope from no self-abasement to win her faith. A Son of the Hills "Oh don't! please don't talk like that!" said Rose, Tom's utter self-abasement and humility rousing all her better nature. The Village by the River Abject self-abasement on their part and stupendous power of will on Henry's, together provide no adequate solution for the history of his reign. Henry VIII. You 'll never know the heartburn, the unrest, the conscience-sickness, the self-abasement that I know when I 'm not writing one, nor the glorious anguish of exhilaration when I am. The Lady Paramount She had experienced her moments of emotional exaltation wherein she was lifted above self-abasement, but now she crouched in the lowest depths of self-suspicion. The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota Thus the Puritans were made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric I wished them good night, and went onwards to my own home, reflecting with much self-abasement of heart, what an honour and comfort it is to be a poor man, rich in faith. The Annals of the Poor She was sick at heart; she hated herself for her self-abasement. The Captain of the Kansas Deacon Phoebe was the self-abasement of humility, Sidney Carton is the supreme surrender of love; but the end of both is service. A Hero and Some Other Folks Coming across this medal where he kept it choicely deposited, it suddenly brought to him an overwhelming feeling of self-abasement and shame. Frank Merriwell's Chums Still, when he spoke of himself as man, he used the strongest terms of self-abasement. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Then political public life will protect all men from self-abasement in sensual pursuits, from vulgar acts and low greed, by giving the noble ambition of just imperial rule. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry "But where the self-assertion is all on one side, and the self-abasement all on the other—as in the case of Miss Jorgensen and Mr. Hurst—then how would you establish an equilibrium, Mrs. Mason?" The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems The dreary Lenten time was over, with its vigils and fasts, its self-abasement and penitence. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 The doctrine of justification by faith, Hume thought, was in harmony with the general law by which religions tend more and more to exaltation of the Deity and to self-abasement of the worshipper. The Age of the Reformation The sentiment arising from an imputation of guilt which we could not avoid, or from the expectation of a punishment of which we are born the inheritors, is not self-abasement, but despair. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel She leaned her white cheek a moment against his in speechless self-abasement. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron He entered into the service of the church, and there, in spite of his humility and his self-abasement, he won the favor of all with whom he had to deal. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches I hurled myself into the depths of self-abasement. Sunny Slopes It becomes us, then, with the deepest humility and self-abasement, to submit our reason to the word of God. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister That dogged stiffness, which betrays the utter self-abasement of resticity in fine company, was evident in his pose, even to one coming up the path. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel Humbled to the earth, overpowered by deep self-abasement and contrition of soul, she clung as with a death-grasp to the words that were bearing her triumphantly through these dark waves. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 "Tears flowed unrestrainedly over my face as I howled in self-abasement— "'To look at the shape of my nose.' Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances His very self-abasement made his plea more strong. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe They went out incensed, but with such a mixed feeling of anger, chagrin, self-abasement, and apprehension as they had never experienced before. The Wedge of Gold He contains none of the expressions of yearning for communion with the divine, of self-abasement in the presence of the eternal, which belong to Christian poetry. Horace and His Influence As she closed the box cover she saw the three cents lying in one corner, and hastily put them in her pocket with a feeling of self-abasement that made her cheeks glow with shame. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 In fact, the characteristic of love being self-abasement, if all souls resembled the holy Doctors who have illuminated the Church, it seems that God in coming to them would not stoop low enough. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse The anger of the nobles in the second, Elisabeth's grief and intercession for her lover, her self-abasement—it is part of the drama to make us feel these things and time is required. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas I confess, with self-abasement, that I once loved you, and with deep humiliation, amounting to agony, that that love was the cause of my ruin. Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims In the torture of his self-abasement, the over-strung ligament in his head fell ominously to droning again. Diane of the Green Van They were powerless, and their only hope was in self-abasement. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power With others, my only means of success is to be firm, and never go back on what I have once said; self-abasement would be taken for weakness. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse Mediaeval courtship or "love-drurye," the trembling self-abasement of the lover before his lady, the fantastic refinements and excesses of gallantry, were alien to Scott's manly and eminently practical turn of mind. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Two years of prison had not broken him down to this point of self-abasement. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 How he confronts these people whom he had to rebuke, and yet how, in a moment, the flashing eye sinks in lowest self-abasement before 'Him that cometh after me'! Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Half his misery rose from this feeling of self-abasement, and from the consciousness that he was weak, piteously weak, exactly in that in which he had often boasted to himself that he was strong. The Claverings And now, in the Holy Eucharist, I see Thee complete Thy self-abasement. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse I think he was perfectly willing that she should be a witness of his self-abasement. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment The thought made her face burn, brought a sense of miserable self-abasement to her. The Imaginary Marriage We learn from the Ninevites what is true repentance They brought no sacrifices or offerings, but sorrow, self-abasement, and amendment. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Love and hate, fear and wonder, self-assertion and self-abasement, the gregarious, the acquisitive, the constructive tendencies, are all expressions of instinctive feeling; and can be traced back to our simplest animal needs. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day She used to talk with the most utter self-abasement before me. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh I have succeeded in dodging them, for the greater part, paying the price in humiliation and self-abasement as I went along. The Taming of Red Butte Western Again I saw my betrothed, and I approached her—innocent and truthful as she was—with shame and self-abasement. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 She, on her part, united, as clever women in love so often do, with a woman's more utter self-abasement a larger measure of critical penetration. Robert Browning But the clearer the vision of the ideal, the deeper must be our self-abasement when we turn our eyes to the actual. Christian Mysticism Their positions are reversed, and he combats his friend's self-abasement as he once combated his too great confidence in himself. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) His likeness to a bird of prey had disappeared; self-abasement appeared in the very folds of his dirty blouse. Twenty-six and One and Other Stories Indeed, the case of these islanders is one in which the necessary effect of that consciousness of impotence and self-abasement, is scarcely in any degree counteracted by other principles. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 But in his self-abasement Frank failed to take into the accounting the stupendous effect which the New York influences and the handling of great affairs had had upon his own character. Katrine Mr. Harding's confidence, his self-abasement, and his almost despairing appeal, had surely given Malling certain rights. The Dweller on the Threshold To Susy Lydia was a little more explicit; but she showed herself so sunk in grief and self-abasement, that Susy had not the heart for either probing or sarcasm. The Mating of Lydia Agonized murmurs of love, pardon, self-abasement passed between them. The Marriage of William Ashe Secondly, he experienced the profound self-abasement or mental annihilation caused by the near conception of a being of a superior order. The Lost Stradivarius These natures, utterly innocent by force of self-accusation and self-abasement, suffer at once the torment of the victim and the criminal. Bebee Rabelais, the priest, physician, and compounder of a new fish sauce, held that life is its own justification, and need not be lived in doleful self-abasement. Shandygaff He pleads for Judaism in a spirit equally removed from arrogance and self-abasement. Chapters on Jewish Literature His humility and self-abasement prepared him, through the grace of the Lord Jesus, for heights of power and honor seldom reached by ministers. Sketches of the Covenanters In those latter times he loved her humbly, with wonder and passionate self-abasement. The Dark House Indeed, his liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. Tales of a Traveller And in her eyes he saw for the first time the self-abasement he had dreaded, yet perhaps expected, to see there before. The Testing of Diana Mallory The graces of humility, self-abasement before God, and especially of penitence for sin, are distasteful and loathed. Sermons to the Natural Man Antonyms: humility, shame, self-abasement, modesty, lowliness. priestly, a. sacerdotal. priestly garments. vestments, canonicals. Putnam's Word Book With the one it was self-abasement—with the other self-consideration; but it came to the same thing in the end, and the men profited equally. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 He adored her to an extent that amazes me to think of, worshipping her beauty with all the headlong self-abasement of a very young man who is also a poet. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Your lordships will not only render further litigation necessary by passing sentence for the perhaps high crime—but still the untried crime—of refusing to yield obedience to the crown's proposition for my self-abasement. Speeches from the Dock, Part I But now, in the person of Joseph, he saw that there were human or half-human beings born to self-abasement, and that, if their destiny was to be fulfilled, valetry was a necessary institution. The Regent Emperor William's piety, while equally fervent, does not give one the same idea of self-abasement in the sight of the Almighty. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) The state of the flour-barrel would also produce a like self-abasement. Frontier Stories With self-abasement I was asking for an explanation of the electric telegraph. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 He was conscious to himself, I repeat, of nothing to cause him shame, and in the tramp of his boots there was certainly no self-abasement. Paul Faber, Surgeon Sometimes fear froze his vitals, then a flush of self-abasement burned him with its flames. The Court of Boyville It made humility, self-restraint, self-abasement, objects of unceasing, possibly not always wise and healthy, effort. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 She laughed plaintively and shook her head in humble self-abasement. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 It is indisputable that outbreaks of self-abasement and emotional revival have a distinct relation to periods of scarcity. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Now, instead of terror and self-abasement, he met scorn—the cold contempt of a being rarefied, and raised above him by centuries of gentler thought and living. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 In a similar spirit of compunctious self-abasement, the present writer may exclaim, "I have not myself been included in the list of Birthday Honours,—but, oh, how I should like to be there!" Collections and Recollections They seem to have expected that the picture which they presented of their friend's transparent sincerity and singleness of aim, manifested amid so much pain and self-abasement, would have touched readers more. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 She felt, with a hot flash of self-abasement, as if she was morally responsible for the consequences that seemed likely to attend Lady Deppingham's indiscretions. The Man from Brodney's She had spoken to him first over a difficulty about the alisphenoid of a rabbit's skull, and he had found that, in biology at least, he had no reason for self-abasement. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories His face wore a look of hot, flurried excitement, and his manner was one of abject, cringing self-abasement. The Rome Express There is an end to everything; there must be an end even to humiliation, to self-abasement. The Lake The vulgar are offended when an illustrious man pays homage to these qualities, forgetful of Shakespeare's self-abasement before Mr. W.H. and of Languet's prostration at the feet of Sidney. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Their piety had no weakness of self-abasement in it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 "No, sir," said Hill, giving in in utter self-abasement. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Something of her misery and self-abasement crept into the letter to Ted, together with a passionate remorse for having doubted him and her even more vehement regret for having gone out with Willis Hubbard. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth His letters to his brother George, who with other friends bestirred himself for Coleridge's release as soon as his whereabouts was discovered, are rather distressing in their self-abasement. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems The beatified penitents of the early Christian Church spoke another lesson—spoke divinely of hope for the fallen, hope without self-abasement or defiance. Literary and General Lectures and Essays We can, therefore, set down as a contrary to pride an emotion which I will call self-abasement, for as from self-complacency springs pride, so from humility springs self-abasement, which I will accordingly thus define: XXIX. Ethics — Part 3 Compress into one handsome face the conscious self-abasement, and the burning indignation of a hundred women, strong in passion and in pride; and there it hid itself with two white shuddering arms. Dombey and Son If he be really the hero that his friends represent him, he must despise all mean condescension, all grovelling sycophancy, all self-degradation and self-abasement. Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate On such occasions a man is rarely just to himself, and the intensity of my self-abasement would have satisfied my worst enemy. Mr. Standfast But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace. The Age of Innocence However, these emotions, humility and self-abasement, are extremely rare. Ethics — Part 3 He felt almost afraid to form a conjecture on the weather, or the time, or the fruit-promise, so great was his self-abasement. The Woodlanders Fred Norman, at these vulgar vigils, took the measure of his own self-abasement to a hair's breadth. The Grain of Dust It is not that they love flattery, but that they need approbation as a counterpoise to the dark moments of self-abasement and as a sustaining aid for higher flights. Worldly Ways and Byways He had concealed nothing, and even, in his self-abasement, he had striven to make himself more despicable than he had really been. Of Human Bondage If anything was needed to put the last touch to her self-abasement it was the sense of the way her old life was opening its ruts again to receive her. House of Mirth The cry struck him down to a lower depth of self-abasement. The Reef In his worst moments of self-abasement he tried to find solace in the thought that Flamel had sanctioned his course. The Touchstone It doesn't mean self-abasement, self-depreciation, as it has been understood to mean, by both the Romish and the Protestant Church. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Will reseated himself, feeling some pity which was half contempt for this voluntary self-abasement of an elderly man. Middlemarch He liked to see Henson's modest smirk and beautiful self-abasement, for in sooth his lordship had a pretty contempt for the man who hoped to succeed him. The Crimson Blind At any rate, Marcella's self-abasement was over, and Letty instinctively realised that she would never see it again, while at the same time a new and clinging need had arisen in herself. Sir George Tressady — Volume II Her enemy, a consummate hypocrite herself, sees in her self-abasement nothing but hypocrisy. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller She clasped her hands before her face in an agony of shame and despair, falling upon her knees in sudden self-abasement, her head drooping until her brow almost touched the ground. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger In self-abasement he fell down at Jesus' knees. Miracles of Our Lord Her sense of disappointment was keen, but not so keen as the sense of her self-abasement. The Golden Calf The Reverend Meek Wolfe was, in spirit, a rare combination of the humblest self-abasement and of fierce spiritual denunciation. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish Prayer brought comfort and a passionate, healing self-abasement. Robert Elsmere It was not without a feeling of self-abasement that she did this, for she prided herself upon her extensive knowledge of the aristocracy, but here she was deplorably ignorant. The Living Link On the contrary, he was blaming himself, little as he deserved it, for the circumstances which had brought Angelica to this bitter moment of self-abasement. The Heavenly Twins Happily for Ida, who had been reduced to the lowest stage of self-abasement by her welcome, he said no more about Miss Pew or his daughter's gloomy prospects. The Golden Calf Any one conversant with the stately pride and jealous dignity of the French noblesse of that day, may imagine the extreme state of sensitiveness that produced this self-abasement. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies "She's an angel—and I'm a beast!" groaned Manley, with the exaggerated self-abasement which so frequently follows close upon the heels of intoxication. Lonesome Land We hope he was a sincere penitent, but men of his complexion are apt to be pleased with such a tragi-comedy of self-abasement, if only they can be chief actors and conspicuous enough therein. Among My Books First Series His self-abasement was abject, yet several hours had passed before he attempted to carry out this design. The Christian A Story So, dear brethren, for all hope, for all success in our work, for all growth in Christian grace and character, this disposition of lowly self-abasement and recognised unworthiness and infirmity is absolutely indispensable. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts The sight of her cousin's grief and self-abasement touched the tender heart of Catharine, for she was kind and dove-like in her disposition, and loved Louis, with all his faults. Canadian Crusoes Oh, that they could see the shame and self-abasement with which, in rebuking their sins, I confess my own! Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography It is a poor motive for outward humility and self-abasement that it may end in higher honour. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Unlike ourselves, who approve of self-abasement, the Arab regards repentance as only fit for slaves. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Learn the spirit in which it must be done; the spirit of lowly self-abasement. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Then, to marry afterwards without adequate means, is a continual act of self-abasement. Youth and Egolatry If the alternative of wealth and power with self-abasement or poverty, obscurity with self-respect were put to him now, what would he decide? The Great God Success In this letter her genuine self-abasement before Gregory's displeasure changes with dramatic suddenness to another tone. Letters of Catherine Benincasa The only temper in which we can serve God and bless man is that of lowliest self-abasement. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Occidental manhood springs from self-respect Oriental manhood finds its greatest satisfaction in self-abasement. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition But in the extremity of my self-abasement, I knelt to kiss her hands, the hem of her dress, her slender, pretty feet. Peregrine's Progress But the only thought which did rise in his mind was one of utter self-abasement. Two Years Ago, Volume II. But there is a point of self-abasement beyond which the perfect consciousness of right rarely permits even the most timid to proceed. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons It may be better for thee to be kept humble and in self-abasement. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. Humility -- N. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood†; abasement, self-abasement; submission &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases How different was his ordinary life from that of his illustrious father, with no repentance, no remorse, no self-abasement! Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets So said Campbell, who, in the over-sensitiveness of his conscience, had actually worked himself round during the past night into this new fancy, as a chivalrous act of utter self-abasement. Two Years Ago, Volume II. "We have all sinned," said the Soul, recovering from its momentary self-abasement. Bible Stories and Religious Classics And daily his self-confidence and sense of rightful power developed, and with them, paradoxical as it may seem, the bitterest self-abasement. Yeast: a Problem It was hoped that this evident self-abasement by Persia would appease even the Russian bureaucracy. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) "Or as he has always condemned himself," rejoined Herriot, with an air of deep self-abasement. The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont Sometimes it arrays itself in silk and jewels; sometimes it walks in sackcloth, and speaks the language of self-abasement. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Clifford was beginning again with self-reproaches and self-abasement, but Rex broke in: ``You fellows are awfully good -- I do assure you I appreciate it. In the Quarter The sight of her cousin's grief and self-abasement touched the tender heart of Catharine; for she was kind and dove-like in her disposition, and loved Louis, with all his faults. Lost in the Backwoods No man ever betrayed a faithful servant with more consummate self-abasement. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 "You have been unfortunate, Doctor, but—" "Unfortunate!" echoed the little man, sideling nigher to his companion, and producing his tablets with an air in which exultation struggled, strangely, with an affectation of self-abasement. The Prairie There were no bounds to his self-abasement, no depths to which he did not sink in his self-judgment. Greifenstein All other failings were invisible under the dazzling veil of that great loveliness; and in his self-abasement he went on— 'Oh, do not spurn me!—do not drive me away! Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face He still wrought within them, and, no doubt, used their very mistakes and miserable failures to perfect within them the spirit of humility and perfect self-abasement in order that they might safely be exalted. When the Holy Ghost is Come It is impossible to descend lower than this in self-abasement. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? "I am afraid you are right, Nimbus," said the white man, with a sense of self-abasement he had never thought to feel before one of the inferior race. Bricks Without Straw And in his self-abasement, he was heroic, unconsciously, as heroes are. Greifenstein With no feeling of self-abasement, leading officials, merchants, bankers, judges, officers, and professional men crowd the royal El Dorado. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance It made Elma's self-abasement even profounder than before to feel that her mother instinctively knew everything. What's Bred in the Bone The pain of her motherhood never approached the agony of her wifehood, when she knew, while the pride of fatherhood was utterly submerged in the poignancy of his self-abasement, when he realized. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness This is not self-abasement; it is not the parading of misfortune. Jane Cable The prouder the woman the more delight does she extract from her self-abasement before her idol. Jess He recalled, with a twinge of self-abasement, that he had suggested bringing his shotgun along! The Metropolis The melancholy, regretful tone she adopted was ten times worse than anger, and by the time they reached the inn where they had dined he was sunk in the depths of self-abasement. The Ne'er-Do-Well In the midst of the deepest self-abasement his heart was overflowing with joy. Sant' Ilario Can I ever hope to make you realise her look, or comprehend the pang of utter self-abasement with which I succumbed before it? Agatha Webb If humiliation would suffice,—or any self-abasement that were possible to me! He Knew He Was Right But more than from shame at vain self-abasement her chagrin came from the sense of having played her game so confidently, so carelessly, so stupidly that he had seen it. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel He said to me once, in an hour of dark despair, that he had drunk the dregs of self-abasement. The Altar Fire Until this hour, although conscious of many faults, she had not supposed that there was anything especially contemptible in her character; but now the feeling of self-abasement was unutterably galling. St. Elmo The depths of self-abasement to which a shopkeeper in Europe will descend in an effort to sell his goods surpasses the power of description. Europe Revised When Mrs. MacHugh met him in the Close, and told him that he was a gay Lothario, he shook his head with a melancholy self-abasement, and passed on without even a feeling of anger. He Knew He Was Right With thrill of marvelling and rapture, with chill of self-abasement. The Crown of Life His Lancelot is a grand conception, as mournfully, but with noble self-abasement, he says: ". . . . in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great." Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries He remembered the self-abasement which had come upon him when he tried to tell her of his love; the offering had seemed so gross, so unworthy to be brought before her. A Life's Morning It was often in his mind to write to her; had he obeyed the voice of his desire he would have penned such letters as only the self-abasement of a passionate lover can dictate. The Nether World But she was silent, pleased with the disparity, with her self-abasement. Women in Love We cast aside our reserves, our secrecies, our defences; we open ourselves; touches that would be intolerable from common people become a mystery of delight, acts of self-abasement and self-sacrifice are charged with symbolical pleasure. First and Last Things He had, moreover, caused every hair to be shaved off his body, which was as naked as the hand, and altogether he presented an edifying picture of penitence and self-abasement. The Monikins Nevertheless, she had awakened, during a spasm of remorseful self-abasement, some nobler quality latent in the man. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life And so forth, and so forth, in the most heartrending strain of insensate self-sacrifice and heroic self-abasement. Simon the Jester We shall rather see in it a proof of the earnest, child-like, honest nature of the man, startled into boundless horror and self-abasement, by the sudden revelation of his crime. Roman and the Teuton But he could neither coax her nor laugh her out of her absorption: she had the will to self-abasement; and she remained unsatisfied, waiting for the word he would not speak. Maurice Guest To my great surprise, however, the judge answered cheerfully; discarding, for the moment, every appearance of self-abasement and mortification. The Monikins He would willingly have withdrawn the punishment under which she was groaning could he have done so without self-abasement. The Duke's Children All the self-abasement of consenting to, or even considering going with, such a creature as Brent now came uppermost. Peg O' My Heart But he could never have guessed all the love, gratitude, repentance, self-abasement and high resolves at that moment welling within her. Missy One night he prayed with peculiar earnestness and self-abasement till morning. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 He has sunk to a depth of self-abasement in which he takes a delight in his degradation. For the Term of His Natural Life All those doubts, fears, indecisions, unexpressed desires, agonies of self-abasement, which might have delayed their understanding and happiness for weeks and months, had been swept into nothingness by the incisive kindliness of Miss Sherwood. Children of the Whirlwind But somehow, in her presence, contempt would not arise within him, and he was driven into wretched silence and self-abasement. The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Hurry, in the main, was a good-hearted as well as good-natured fellow; and the self-abasement of his companion completely got the better of the passing feeling of personal vanity. The Deerslayer It drove him forth as a pilgrim to Asia, whence our forefathers came, and there he did wonderful deeds, both of valour and self-abasement. Sintram and His Companions Only miserable casuists will ask whether this was fair play on Madeleine's part; whether flattery so gross cost her conscience no twinge, and whether any woman can without self-abasement be guilty of such shameless falsehood. Democracy, an American novel The state of the flour barrel would also produce a like self-abasement. Flip, a California romance Coley stood with his head hung in abject self-abasement, and then ventured to say, "I couldn't stand them ducks nohow!" The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa "I did not even succeed in harming that enigmatical personage," continued Chauvelin with the same self-abasement. The Elusive Pimpernel Mr. Hill saw his mistake; begged that no further evidence might be taken; and, at the next sitting of the House, withdrew his charge in unqualified terms of self-abasement and remorse. Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 She could not modulate out the key of self-abasement in which she had started. A Room with a View The impulse was given, and eager to obey it, while it still buoyed her above the dislike to self-abasement, she looked round for the speediest measure, caring little what it might be. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife At the first word Philip had sunk on his knees, hiding his face on the bed-clothes, in an agony of self-abasement, before the goodness he had been relentlessly persecuting. The Heir of Redclyffe Rather, his scruples deepened with his desires; and he could satisfy his most exorbitant ambitions in a profundity of self-abasement. Eminent Victorians Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 For be my success small or great, it has been won without inner compromise or other form of self-abasement. The Choir Invisible The Indian, in whose manner the depression of self-abasement was most powerfully exhibited, listened to the offers of the Judge with an interest that increased with each syllable. The Pioneers She laughed as though he could still hear her; but after her laugh there came a few moments of overwhelming bitterness that sent her on her knees by the side of the couch in self-abasement. Phyllis of Philistia She saw also that his conceit was not very profound, and that his fits of self-abasement were as extreme as his exaltation had been. The Way of All Flesh The true Bostonian always knelt in self-abasement before the majesty of English standards; far from concealing it as a weakness, he was proud of it as his strength. The Education of Henry Adams After Mazzini had followed Landor to Elysium, and Victor Hugo had followed Mazzini, babies were what among live creatures most evoked Swinburne's genius for self-abasement. And Even Now I am thinking of my self-abasement—the prostration of the poorest outcast in the presence of the Saviour. A Prince of Bohemia Her compassion for Laetitia was less forced, but really she was almost as earnest in her self-abasement, for she had not latterly been brilliant, not even adequate to the ordinary requirements of conversation. The Egoist I was in the depths of self-abasement when I heard a sound behind me. When a Man Marries "Let them break my heart if they like," she had thought to herself, in the self-abasement of that bitter moment; "it will be no more than I have deserved." The New Magdalen It has in it perhaps the self-abasement principle of McDougall, but perhaps it is just as well to say that admiration, respect and confidence are basic in it. The Foundations of Personality A proud man humiliates himself because he sees there is grandeur in a certain self-abasement. A Start in Life The sprite of contrariety mounted to her brain to indemnify her for her recent self-abasement. The Egoist He thought he must have committed that sin against the Holy Spirit which dooms the soul for ever, By degrees that dark cloud cleared away, Anselmo juvante; but deep self-abasement remained. The Cloister and the Hearth The full meaning lifted Hare out of his self-abasement; once more he felt himself a man. Heritage of the Desert The three main primary emotions are fear, anger, and disgust; other are curiosity, joy, sorrow, self-display, and self-abasement. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 I went to her at last, for all that I knew she loved me, in passionate self-abasement, white and a-tremble. The New Machiavelli There are also the instinct of self-assertion and, fully as important as any, that of self-abasement. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 |
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