16 adjectives to describe abasement

But the only thought which did rise in his mind was one of utter self-abasement.

And daily his self-confidence and sense of rightful power developed, and with them, paradoxical as it may seem, the bitterest self-abasement.

Their two wants were bread and the shows of the circus; so long as the sportula of their patron, the occasional donative of an emperor, and the ambition of political candidates supplied these wants, they lived in contented abasement, anxious neither for liberty nor for power.

In view of the stress at the treasury, of growing discontent, of vanished illusions, the comptroller-general meditated convoking the Assembly of Notables, the feeble resource of the old French kingship before the days of pure monarchy, an expedient more insufficient and more dangerous than the most far-seeing divined after the lessons of the philosophers and the continuous abasement of the kingly Majesty.

It was hoped that this evident self-abasement by Persia would appease even the Russian bureaucracy.

He was aware of the necessity of covering the workings of ambition within his breast with the veil of exterior self-abasement; and therefore professed to take no merit to himself, and to see nothing in what he had done, but the hand of the Almighty, fighting in behalf of his faithful servants.

She laughed plaintively and shook her head in humble self-abasement.

Industry, man's crown of honour elsewhere, is here his badge of utter degradation; and so comes all by which I am here surroundedpride, profligacy, idleness, cruelty, cowardice, ignorance, squalor, dirt, and ineffable abasement.

O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker'it's that exactlya sense of joyful abasement in the presence of something great and infinitely beautiful.

" "We have all sinned," said the Soul, recovering from its momentary self-abasement.

At first, most of the listeners were disposed to believe him one of those exaggerated spirits who exalt themselves by a pretended self-abasement, but his natural, quiet, and thoughtful deportment soon produced a more favorable opinion.

he obeyed hergroaning within himself, incapable altogether, out of sheer abasement, of saying those words she had asked of him.

France was already beginning to perceive her sudden abasement in Europe; the defaults of her generals as well as of her government sometimes struck the king himself; he threw the blame of it on the barrenness of his times.

It was moving and impressive, especially for those who think that the Almighty is better pleased with abject abasement than a plain common-sense endeavour to do better, and will accept a long tale of public penance before the record of simple daily duties honestly performed.

It was his uttermost abasement.

In a similar spirit of compunctious self-abasement, the present writer may exclaim, "I have not myself been included in the list of Birthday Honours,but, oh, how I should like to be there!" FOOTNOTES: 1897.

16 adjectives to describe  abasement