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humiliation|ˌhjuːmɪlɪˈeɪʃən|
[a. F. humiliation (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. humiliātiōn-em, n. of action from humiliāre to humiliate.]
The action of humiliating or condition of being humiliated; humbling, abasement. Formerly often = humbled or humble condition, humility.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋406 The ferthe [manere of humylitee] is whan he nys nat sory of his humiliacion. 1490Caxton Eneydos iv. 18 Eneas knelyd doun on bothe his knees, bi grete humylyacyon of herte. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 16 Tha war ordanit also for owr humiliatioun, instructioun and spiritual exercitioun. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 110 Receiving penitents..having first before this washing testified their humiliation by fasting and prayer. 1648Shorter Catech. Westm. Assemb. (1718) §23 Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a Prophet, of a Priest, and of a King, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation. 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. 65 Yes, said Prudence,..it is an hard matter for a man to go down into the valley of Humiliation, as thou art now, and to catch no slip by the way. 1700S. L. tr. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. 353 On the 10th, We kept a day of Fasting and Humiliation. 1771Junius Lett. xlii. 221 Where will the humiliation of this country end? 1848R. I. Wilberforce Incarnation vi. (1852) 162 As His Incarnation was the humiliation of His Godhead, so was His death the humiliation of His earthly nature. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xiii. (1878) 273, I think ‘humiliation’ is a very different condition of mind from humility. ‘Humiliation’ no man can desire; it is shame and torture.
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1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 79 Many voluntary humiliacyons in y⊇ waye to perfyte mekenes. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. xiv. 123 Nor would he pay the least regard to the humiliations and supplications of some among them. 1837Macaulay Ess., Bacon (1887) 383 Incensed by multiplied wrongs and humiliations. |