abasement

In cultures like this one, actually doing work was considered a social abasement.

He had made that sacrifice in a spirit of abasement.

"I wonder how much abasement a human being can bear, and still desire to live."

It was not said out of abasement, false humility, however.

The beam was replaced by a look of humble abasement.

The sort of abasement novices have to go through before they are admitted to an order.

He entered the mosque room as the men were rising to their feet from the position of abasement before God.

Other designers consider the personal appearance an act of abasement, to which creative people should not fall.

At least I wasn't alone in my public abasement.

His name seemed to rise up from an abyss of abasement and horror.

It felt to her now that the only way she could find sustenance was to feed on his abasement.

With each exercise of abasement and exploitation, their appetite grows.

Now, however, it is part of the lingo of abasement.

Sylvie stayed crouched down, face near the floor, a sign of abasement.

His abasement wasn't going to be enough, and he knew it-but it was a try.

His feet were somewhat reluctant; the abasement ahead wasn't particularly attractive.

In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self- abasement.

We had been kept in abasement and made to feel our inferiority in social intercourse.

Neither will your glory last, nor will Mine abasement endure.

It must be the ultimate abasement when a man is considered a coward by his own slaves."

This concept should be recognized to minimize the insidious abasement of the individual when only a number is used to identify him or her.

So maybe an attic is better than abasement."

"If I'd made obeisance you'd have demanded the abasement, wouldn't you?"

The human slaves knelt in abasement before him.

His degradation and abasement were, in the eyes of those Ferrands, complete.