Definition of abase

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Abase (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade..

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Base :: Base (a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower..
Abaser :: Abaser (n.) He who, or that which, abases..
Diminution :: Diminution (n.) The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement..
Abased :: Abased (a.) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield..
Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
Humility :: Humility (n.) The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.
Humble :: Humble (v. t.) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
Abjectness :: Abjectness (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
Avile :: Avile (v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate..
Metabases :: Metabases (pl. ) of Metabasi.
Viridite :: Viridite (n.) A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation..
Abase :: Abase (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye..
Humble :: Humble (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate..
Ophite :: Ophite (n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance..
Avale :: Avale (v. t. & i.) To bring low; to abase.
Abject :: Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase..
Debase :: Debase (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words..
Depression :: Depression (n.) Humiliation; abasement, as of pride..
Himself :: Himself (pron.) One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself..
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