humiliateadj.n.

Etymology: < late Latin humiliātus, past participle of humiliāre (see humiliant adj.).

A. adj.

†a. Humiliated, humbled. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [adjective]

dejectc1528

broken1535

abased1554

come1564

downfallen1575

snubbed1583

crestfallen1589

humiliate1593

plume-plucked1597

low-broughta1599

chop-fallen1604

chap-fallen1608

dejected1608

humbleda1616

unprided1628

diminished1667

mortified1710

small1771

humiliated1782

squelched1837

grovelleda1845

sat-upon1873

comedown1886

deflated1894

zapped1962

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 39^v They would be more humiliate and deiected.

b. Belonging to the order of Humiliates.

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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Order of St. Benedict > [adjective] > Humiliate

humiliate1880

1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. VII. 689 A female order of Benedictines, known as humiliate nuns, or nuns of Blassoni.

†B. n.

(With capital H.) One of an order of monks and nuns who affected great humility in dress, behaviour, and occupation. Obsolete.

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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Order of St. Benedict > [noun] > Humiliate

humiliate1611

humilist1611

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 487/1 Nor were those wylie Humiliates regardlesse of choosing a delicate plotte..where hee built a goodlie Abbey of their Order.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Humiliates, a Religious Order, instituted about the year 1166 by certain persons exiled by Fredericus Barbarossa.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

humiliatev.

/hjuːˈmɪlɪeɪt/

Etymology: < humiliāt-, participial stem of late Latin humiliāre , < humilis humble adj. Compare French humilier.

†1. transitive. To make low or humble in position, condition, or feeling; to humble. reflexive. To humble or abase oneself, to stoop; sometimes, to prostrate oneself, to bow. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > humility > self-abasement > humble oneself [verb (reflexive)]

meekc1175

humblec1380

meekenc1450

lowlyc1485

humiliate1533

abase1539

demean1659

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [verb (reflexive)] > prostrate oneself in reverence

prostratec1425

prostern1490

humiliate1533

prostitute1583

the mind > emotion > humility > make humble [verb (transitive)]

edmodienc1175

lowc1175

meekc1175

lessa1382

abatec1390

abasea1393

belowc1400

meekenc1400

disadvance?c1425

simplec1450

lowlyc1485

humilea1492

chasten1526

to pare the nails ofa1549

lessen1579

vail1582

to take (something) a hole lower1591

destate1615

humblea1616

thorough-humblea1617

humiliate1656

level1712

unnichea1751

to level up, down1791

unpedestal1821

to take the starch out of1830

1533–4 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 22 We be..set in comforte to humyliate our selfes as prostrate afore your highnes.

?1563 Visct. Montagu tr. J. Fisher Godlie Treat. Prayer sig. C3^v For God his wyll is, that we should humiliate and deiect our selues in the sight of his maiestie.

1601–2 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 20 Such a religious man may not..humiliate him~selfe to execute the rite of homage.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. i. iv. 254 How much we ought to..examine & humiliate our selues, & seek to God, & call to him for mercy.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Humiliate, to make low or humble.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xvii. 128 They might well fear, lest all the States of Germany humiliated, or joyned to those of the Emperour, he might come to redemand some Townes amongst them.

1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure II. 17 He whom indigence and the strokes of ill-fortune have not..humiliated.

2. To lower or depress the dignity or self-respect of; to subject to humiliation; to mortify.

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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]

anitherOE

fellOE

lowc1175

to lay lowc1225

to set adownc1275

snuba1340

meekc1350

depose1377

aneantizea1382

to bring lowa1387

declinea1400

meekenc1400

to pull downc1425

avalec1430

to-gradea1440

to put downc1440

humble1484

alow1494

deject?1521

depress1526

plucka1529

to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533

to bring down1535

to bring basec1540

adbass1548

diminish1560

afflict1561

to take down1562

to throw down1567

debase1569

embase1571

diminute1575

to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576

exinanite1577

to take (a person) a peg lower1589

to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589

disbasea1592

to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592

comb-cut1593

unpuff1598

atterr1605

dismount1608

annihilate1610

crest-fall1611

demit1611

pulla1616

avilea1617

to put a scorn on, upon1633

mortify1639

dimit1658

to put a person's pipe out1720

to let down1747

to set down1753

humiliate1757

to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789

start1821

squabash1822

to wipe a person's eye1823

to crop the feathers of1827

embarrass1839

to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864

to sit upon ——1864

squelch1864

to cut out of all feather1865

to sit on ——1868

to turn down1870

to score off1882

to do (a person) in the eye1891

puncture1908

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

to cut down to size1927

flatten1932

to slap (a person) down1938

punk1963

1757 [implied in: Herald I. ix. 147 To have demanded so humiliating a sacrifice of decorum. (at humiliating adj.)].

1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 570 The luxury of individuals often..humiliates those who miss its delights.

1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 66 I have..to complain of my counsel..for humiliating me.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 113 Mere donations..humiliate as much as they relieve.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §3. 362 The country was humiliated by defeat.

1879 C. Rossetti Seek & Find 161 When we ask to be humbled, we must not recoil from being humiliated.

Derivatives

huˈmiliated adj.

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