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What does abase mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive, archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down[First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
  2. (transitive) To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.[Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 18th century.]
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And please let me, or any other liberal, know if there is anything else we can do to abase ourselves.
Commander of the faithful, abase not yourself to the meanness of your slave.
He saw a way to hurt her, to abase her pride, and cut her to the very soul with shame.
Thus, he enters the dining room, ready to abase himself because he disdains everyone else.
How these gestures will be interpreted by the electorate is not clear, but it is clear that they will do anything, even abase themselves in public, to gain power.
We have all so much reason to abase ourselves, and repent in dust and ashes!

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