单词 | self-abasing |
释义 | self-abasingadj. That abases himself or herself; characterized by or involving self-abasement. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > self-abasement > [adjective] self-abasing1642 disqualifying1723 humilific1892 1642 G. Hughes Art of embalming Dead Saints 38 Christ is mine, and I am his: An humbled, selfe-judging, selfe-abasing, and selfe-denying soule cannot come to him and be cast out. 1656 J. Owen Of Mortification of Sinne xii. 153 This selfe abasing consideration. 1739 S. Hebden Best Way to provide against Old Age 10 Have we been led by the Word of God..to such serious self abasing Thoughts of God, and our many Sinnings against him? 1793 W. Cowper Let. 2 Aug. (1984) IV. 375 The self-abasing doctrines of the Gospel. 1822 J. MacDonald Mem. J. Benson 330 Their joyful and self-abasing reflections. 1874 Examiner 1 Aug. 826/1 The inhumanly high-strung and never-relaxing nature of Macaulay, didactic and dignified, was as different as possible from the pleasure-loving, receptive, self-abasing Boswell. 1948 Amer. Hist. Rev. 54 11 Almost self-abasing in its tenor, the letter gives pathetic expression to the fear of which the crown prince could never rid himself. 2016 London (Ont.) Free Press (Nexis) 18 May a7 Their hatred for all things fancy and pretty,..all things that are not plain or self-deprecating or self-abasing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1642 |
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