self-abasement
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈsɛlf əˌbeɪsmənt/
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auto-desprecio
- The speaker's self-abasement during the apology showed his sincere regret for his past mistakes.
Examples
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" Rhetoric of self-abasement and dependency was used to gain the confidence and goodwill of others, and was not reflective of an actual inability to provide for one's self or otherwise mold one's life.
Academic text (1999) -
Apparently, Carlyle never returned to his private outpouring of grief and self-abasement.
Academic text (2001) -
"I have nothing to gain, much to lose, by self-abasement," Ghrul-Captain knew.
Fiction book (2001) -
The fear of physical pain... drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement.
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It was an aimless search, rife with conflict and self-abasement.
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In it, she takes all the blame, grovels in self-abasement for not staying the course, and regrets all the emotional carnage she has caused.
Fiction book (1999) -
Beginning with their earliest encounters with whites, the Choctaws used language both of self-abasement and of praise for those they were entreating.
Academic text (1999) -
I have spent much of my life in Evangelical circles where humility is exalted (one of my writer friends can tell me if that is irony or paradox) and self-abasement is the highest form of piety.
Blog text (22) -
His frequent acts of self-abasement made it hard for his friends to reassure him of his worth.
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In her journey of recovery, she realized that self-abasement would not heal her wounds but rather deepen them.
Synonyms
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7.4
A feeling of deep regret and an action to show you are sorry
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5.1
A habit of judging yourself harshly for your actions or abilities
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9.9
To punish yourself by hitting your body with a whip, often for religious reasons
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7.5
Making yourself suffer because you feel guilty
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7.4
Causing yourself pain by thinking a lot about bad things
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7.1
A feeling of blaming yourself for something you did wrong
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7.9
To blame yourself for mistakes or failures
A practice of hurting yourself on purpose to show discipline or say sorry, often for religious reasons
To make yourself feel sad or guilty on purpose by replaying past events
A feeling of blaming yourself for a mistake
Blaming yourself for things you did wrong
To act or think in ways that make you feel worthless and ashamed
To give up your own needs to help others
Antonyms
How Humiliating
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Self-abasement combines self ('oneself') and abase ('to lower'), so it literally means 'lowering yourself'. The same idea is in the word basement ('low place'), which helps explain why self-abasement means humiliating or punishing yourself.