Word Meanings - SELF-ABASEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act. 2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.

Related words: (words related to SELF-ABASEMENT)

• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• GUILTLESS
  1. Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7. 2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted . Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton.
• GUILTINESS
  The quality or state of being guilty.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• PROCEEDING
  The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act
• ABASEMENT
  The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• GUILTILY
  In a guilty manner.
• SHAMEFACED
  Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise. Dryden. Note: Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness;
• GUILT-SICK
  Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El.
• SHAMEFUL
  1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful. His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat. Arbuthnot. 2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a
• GUILT
  signifying, the fine or mulct paid for an offence, and afterward the offense itself, and akin to AS. gieldan to pay, E. yield. See Yield, 1. The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from
• DEGRADATION
  A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, fro (more info) 1. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution;
• SHAMELESS
  1. Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace. "Such shameless bards we have." Pope. Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. Shak. 2. Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent;
• GUILTY
  1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered
• PROCEEDS
  That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
• SHAMER
  One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed. Beau & Fl.
• HUMILIATION
  1. The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification. Bp. Hopkins. 2. The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission. The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood.
• SHAME-PROOF
  Shameless. Shak.
• SELF-DEGRADATION
  The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.
• ASHAMEDLY
  Bashfully.
• ASHAMED
  Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting
• COVER-SHAME
  Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden.
• SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being self-conscious.
• INGUILTY
  Not guilty. Bp. Hall.
• SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.
• ASHAME
  To shame. Barrow.