Verb (used with object), : He abased his head. From Dictionary.com.
Then did mother unholy to son that knew not abase her. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Steel could a mountain abase, no loftier any thro 'heaven's. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
As I do abase myself, as all unworthy the vocation I chose. From Wordnik.com. [A Morbid Taste For Bones]
Then did mother unholy to son that knew not abase her. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
Misfortunes, which generally humble and abase a noble Behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Exilius] Reference
Steel could a mountain abase, no loftier any thro 'heaven's. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
And then the degradation to which he had been forced to abase himself!. From Wordnik.com. [Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival] Reference
And that's precisely why he'll help you, if you abase yourself suitably. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
Each gets what it desires, but the great state must learn to abase itself. From Wordnik.com. [Tao Te Ching] Reference
Yet she commended his height of spirit, which poverty had no power to abase. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
Why would any human being ask of others what he would never abase himself to do?. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: Staying the Course Until What?] Reference
OTHER CANDIDATE HAS, and now even Bob Herbert wants him to abase himself for it. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: So, You Want a Theocracy Now?] Reference
“Commander of the Faithful! abase not yourself to the meanness of your slave.”. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Caliph Vathek] Reference
Can you behold every one that is proud, and abase him, and bind their faces in secret?. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy War] Reference
"I abase myself regularly before beautiful women, and they all think I'm a comedian.". From Wordnik.com. [Disordered Minds]
But if they refuse to abase themselves before money, they would doubtless abase the foe. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
“If this hypothesis maligns the motives of the Kratch, I apologize and abase myself.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Dryden -- to name but one out of numerous kindred offenders -- consented to abase himself. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
With an ingratiating grimace, Urus leaned toward Incus, appearing almost to abase himself. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
He wanted this woman, wanted to abase himself before her, to surrender himself utterly. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
In one sense, it is most true, we ought to abase, but in another we ought to exalt ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
She already has the working class vote -- why is she toiling overtime to abase herself before it?. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Obama Walking The Walk On Change] Reference
That there is some pride in this, I confess, but I do not intend either to boast or abase myself. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That will abase her pride; and when she is wedded to a bondsman she will be powerless to injure me. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Tarquinius, angry at his opposition, took measures to abase him and to bring his art into contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
I shall again revisit my native country with honour, and abase the villain who hath soiled my fame!. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom] Reference
They know that the more they reject his overtures the more he'll abase himself and the United States. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The very design of the gospel is to abase us; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
He shall judge the poor of the people, and shall save the children of the needy, and shall abase the slanderer. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
(I'd love to see other countries come here an abase themselves in a similar fashion - we'd think the leader was loony.). From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Wherefore they choose rather utterly to deny his divine person than allow that he did thus abase himself for our sakes. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference
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