The Earth itself, though frequently accused of being eager to receive ideas that may abase the eminent, could hardly admit a calumny so groundless and irrational.

"Would'st that I abase myself?

"Ah, no, Beltane, look yonderbehold where salvation cometh" "I had rather look where my salvation lieth, within these dear eyes nay, abase them not.

<Abase, debase, degrade, humble, humiliate, disgrace.

To abase is to bring down so that the victim feels himself lowered in estate or external condition.

Abandon, Synonyms of, Abase, Synonyms of, Abettor, Synonyms of, Abolish, Synonyms of, Abridge Abstract vs. concrete terms.

I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the charny is a Martial equivalent.

Moreover, had the Roman kept quiet, even had he refrained from threats, it becomes our honour, of our own choice, to enter on this war, to avenge the wrongs of our fathers, and to abase his pride.

Faith, little news; but here's a letter which Master Gripe desired me to deliver you: and though it stand not with my reputation to be a carrier of letters, yet, not knowing how much it might concern you, I thought it better something to abase myself, than you should be anyways hindered.

I found it hard to understand, accordingly, what could have caused him to abase himself at this later date.

V. depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude^, pitch, precipitate.

Once chiefe of all the great barons was hee Yet fortune so cruelle this lorde did abase, Now loste and forgotten are hee and his race.

" "Depart, O mercenary being!" exclaimed the doctor, "before you abase my thoughts from sulphate of quinia to filthy lucre.

If yet he would be stirred up to consider his case, whence he is fallen, and whither he is falling, and set himself to serious seekings of God, cast down himself before Him, abase himself, cry for mercy as for his life, there is yet hope in his case.

In an hour his boasting was at an end, and, reduced by the chastening judgment of the Almighty to the level of the brute creation, he was compelled to learn that "those who walk in pride the King of heaven is able to abase."

When Artevelde saw the efforts a-making, and how hotly he was pressed, he came to a window over the street, and began to abase himself, and say with much fine language, 'Good folks, what want ye?

I promised Your Majesty to use all my industry, and all the authority you gave me, to ruin the Huguenot party, to abase the pride of the high nobles, and to raise your name among foreign nations to the place where it ought to be.

There shall come a day when you shall abase yourselfeven as you have seen Ysolinde the Princess abase herself to Hugo, the son of the Red Axe of the Wolf mark.

There shall come a day when you shall abase yourselfeven as you have seen Ysolinde the Princess abase herself to Hugo, the son of the Red Axe of the Wolf mark.

By the lords of hell, I will abase you, Executioner's son!

TLANIICZA, v. To abase, to humble.

I consented to paint it, as Tiffles well remembers, only on condition that I should not wholly abase myself by abandoning the style upon which I have built up my reputation.

An' wi' her eyes she coaxed and dared me to abase mysel' an' speak the truth an' win off jail.

Thus he effectually accomplished his noble designs, and perfecteth his work, in a way tending to abase man, by discovering his infirmities and failings; and to glorify himself in his goodness and love.

He who can write a profane poem well, may write a divine one better; but he who can do that but ill, will do this much worse, and so far from elevating poesy will but abase divinity.