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self-abasement example sentences
self-abasement
1. of your prize by delighting in self-abasement (humility) and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has
2. Their urge to perfection can turn into worry and lack of confidence; their natural humility can become self-denial and self-abasement
3. 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
4. But, if they seek to glorify God, let them not lift heavenward their unclean hands! If they would serve their fellowmen, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement! Wouldst thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better—can be more for God's glory, or man's welfare—than God's own truth? Trust me, such men deceive themselves!”
5. this voluntary self-abasement of an elderly man
6. He had been prepared for a scene of self-abasement, but his intense pride and his habit of supremacy overpowered penitence, and even dread, when this young man, whom he had meant to benefit, turned on him with the air of a judge
7. ‘Before me? No! All is over for me,’ she replied with shame and self-abasement
8. In front of the screen door he took off his hat, dropped it into the dust, and ground it with his heel in self-abasement
9. ‘Of course,’ he muttered to himself a minute later with a feeling of self-abasement, ‘of course, all these infamies can never be wiped out or smoothed over … and so it’s useless even to think of it, and I must go to them in 379 of 967
10. Meekness, submissivene-ss, self-abasement, and at the same time firmness, strength, real strength, that's 3'our mother's character
11. Oh, there's a great deal of humiliation and self-abasement about it, but it all comes from pride
12. “Before me? No! All is over for me,” she replied with shame and self-abasement