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countable and uncountable, plural abasements
The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low. examples
The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. quotations examples
He was wearing cavalry twill trousers and a buff crew-neck sweater. The effect was of symbolic abasement mixed with military resolve […]
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing