Definitions for abase
əˈbeɪsabase

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abaseverb

   cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

   "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abaseverb

   To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

   "Saying so, he abased his lance." - Thomas Shelton

2. abaseverb

   To cast down or to lower, as in rank, office, condition in life or estimation of worthiness, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade.

   "Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased." - Luke 14:11

3. Etymology: * First attested in 1539.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Abaseverb

   To cast down, to depress, to bring low, almost always in a figurative and personal sense.

   Etymology: Fr. abaisser, from the Lat. basis, or bassus, a barbarous word, signifying low, base.

   Happy shepherd, with thanks to the gods, still think to be thankful, that to thy advancement their wisdoms have thee abased. Philip Sidney, b. i.

   With unresisted might the monarch reigns;
   He levels mountains, and he raises plains;
   And, not regarding diff’rence of degree,
   Abas’d your daughter, and exalted me. John Dryden, Fables.

   Behold every one that is proud, and abase him. Job, xl. 11.

   If the mind be curbed and humbled too much in children; if their spirits be abased and broken much by too strict an hand over them; they lose all their vigour and industry, and are in a worse state than the former. John Locke, on Education, § 46.

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1. abase

   Abase is a verb that means to behave in a way that lowers or reduces someone's rank, dignity, or status, or causes them to lose self-respect. It typically involves belittling or demeaning someone either mentally, physically or socially.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Abaseadjective

   to lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye

2. Abaseadjective

   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

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Abase

   a-bās′, v.t. to cast down: to humble: to degrade.—adjs. Abā′sed, Abaissé (her.), depressed.—n. Abase′ment, state of humiliation. [O. Fr. abaissier, to bring low—L. ad, to, and root of Base, adj.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of abase in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of abase in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of abase in a Sentence

1. Robertson Davies:

   The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

2. Joe Biden:

   If these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to President Trump's willingness to abuse President Trump power and abase our country. This behavior is particularly abhorrent because it exploits the foreign policy of our country and undermines our national security for political purposes. It means that President Trump used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation — a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia — pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor, such clear-cut corruption damages and diminishes our institutions of government by making them tools of a personal political vendetta. At minimum, Donald Trump should immediately release the transcript of the call in question, so that the American people can judge for themselves, and direct the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to stop stonewalling and release the whistleblower notification to the Congress.

3. Robert Cecil:

   We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=abase
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Abase
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=abase
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abase
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=abase