Abasement
to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
archaic. to lower; put or bring down:
he abased his head.
verb (transitive)
to humble or belittle (oneself, etc)
to lower or reduce, as in rank or estimation
n.
early 15c., “embarr-ssment, dread, fear,” from abase + -ment. sense of “action of lowering in price” is mid-15c.; “action of lowering in rank” is 1560s; “condition of being abased” is from 1610s.
v.
late 14c., abaishen, from old french abaissier “diminish, make lower in value or status” (12c.), from vulgar latin -ad b-ssiare “bring lower,” from late latin b-ssus “thick, fat, low;” from the same source as base (adj.) and altered 16c. in english by influence of it, which made it an exception to the rule that old french verbs with stem -iss- enter english as -ish. related: abased; abasing.
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