| 释义 |
self-aˈbasement
[self- 1 a.]
Humiliation of oneself.
1656Owen Mortif. Sin xii. (1668) 128 Such Meditations as may serve to fill thee..with self-abasement. 1710Shaftesbury Charac., Adv. Author iii. iii. (1727) I. 331 The method of Self-abasement may perhaps be thought the properest to make Approaches to the sacred Shrines. 1860Mozlev Univ. Serm. vii. (1877) 160 Self-abasement, as illustrated by the parable of the sanctified Publican. 1883Wace Gospel & its Witnesses iv. 76 The Church's daily Confession, with its keen self-abasement. |
