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発音

• IPA: /əˈbeɪs.mənt/
• 韻: -eɪsmənt

名詞

abasement (countable and uncountable, plural abasements)

1. The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low. [Mid 16 century.]
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:abasement.
2. The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation or degradation; a feeling of having been reduced in dignity, reputation, stature, self-esteem or respect. [Mid 16 century.]

   After his actions, my abasement is complete, and I can be humiliated no more.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     He was wearing cavalry twill trousers and a buff crew-neck sweater. The effect was of symbolic abasement mixed with military resolve […]

   • Thomas J. Millay (2022), The Abased Christ‎, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG: “He wants to emphasize the abasement Christ chose while on Earth.”

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派生語

• self-abasement

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “abasement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “abasement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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