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How to use abasement in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word abasement? Here are some examples.

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She allows us to examine our own appetites for public abasement without feeling guilty.
Throughout history a doffed hat has symbolized defeat, humility and abasement before one's betters.
I beg that someone will recognise my abasement and meet my very human but mutually exclusive needs.
Perhaps what takes Hamlet so much time in the play is that a ritual of abasement needs to performed.
It is not so much an abasement of self as an acknowledgment that one's own way may not be the only or even the best way.
The costs of Mr Cameron's abasement in front of Rupert Murdoch surely far outweigh the benefits.
He saw the home run as an abasement of the game he loved, a cheap, undignified method of scoring runs.
Mobbing is defined as behaviour which results in the violation of dignity, humiliation or abasement of an employee.
Our Lord wants the members of his Mystical Body to share in the mystery of abasement and exaltation by which he carried out the Redemption.
Quo me rapis? Quo indeed. My whole conduct, meekness, mansuetude, voluntary abasement, astonishes me.
No darkness nor abasement shall cover their faces!
The meeting might begin with Paul's hymn in Philippians 2:5-11 referring to the abasement and exultation of Christ, or some other similar passage.
Examples from Classical Literature
White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.
In this mortifying abasement, the colonists, though innocent of her imbecility, and too humble to be the agents of her blunders, were but the natural participators.
The echo of the scream had not ceased to ring on the air when there came the reaction, and she sank on her knees on the floor in an agony of abasement.
Don't imagine me grovelling in spiritual abasement before a mere image.
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