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English
Etymology
abase + -ment. Compare French abaissement.
Pronunciation
Noun
abasement (countable and uncountable, plural abasements)
- The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low.
- The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
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Translations
the act of abasing
- Arabic: ذُلّ m (ḏull)
- Egyptian Arabic: ذل m (zull)
- Bulgarian: унижение (bg) (uniženie), понижение (bg) (poniženie)
- Catalan: humiliació (ca) f, degradació f
- Cherokee: ᎡᎳᏗᎾᏅᎡᏁᎲ (eladinanvenehv)
- Dutch: vernedering (nl), kleinering m
- Esperanto: malaltigo, humiligo
- Finnish: alennus (fi), alennustila (fi), nöyryytys (fi)
- French: humiliation (fr) f
- German: Erniedrigung (de) f
- Greek: εξευτελισμός (el) m (exeftelismós), υποβίβαση (el) f (ypovívasi), ταπείνωση (el) f (tapeínosi)
- Icelandic: auðmýking f, lítillækkun f
- Ido: abaso (io), humiligo (io)
- Indonesian: penghinaan (id)
- Interlingua: abassamento (ia)
- Irish: náiriú m, uirísliú m
- Italian: umiliazione (it), mortificazione (it), degradazione (it)
- Malay: penghinaan
- Manx: injillid m
- Maori: whakamā
- Portuguese: rebaixe, humilhação (pt), aviltamento (pt)
- Romanian: înjosire (ro) f, degradare (ro) f, umilire (ro) f
- Russian: униже́ние (ru) n (unižénije)
- Spanish: rebajamiento (es) m, abatimiento (es) m, humillación (es) m
- Welsh: darostyngiad m, iselhad m
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 , →ISBN), page 2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abasement”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
- “abasement”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “abasement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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