This done, in the same form he abased towards the ground about the one and the other hand.
Not humbled before God, as having failed in trust towards Him; not degraded and abased in Mr. Thornton's sight.
If it were only for her sake, I wish he would come, and then at least I should know how much I was abased in his eyes.
At moments of leisure he abased his fatty whitish jowl and contemplated with watery eyes the floor in front of his highly polished boots, having first placed his ugly clubby hands together behind his most ample back.
He hadabased every order in the State for the aggrandizement of the Crown, and, for the first time since the termination of the Roman Empire, had concentrated the whole power of a nation into the will of an individual.
The laborer was purposely abased to the utmost and he was made to feel in many ways his particular low place in the social organization.
I love you, my dear child, in the love of the Divine Master, who so abased himself by love!
As when we charge a vessel, the more ballast we put in, the lower it sinks, so the more love we have in the soul, the lower we are abased in self.
I am neither so grateful for my mercies, nor so abased on account of my transgressions, as I was when the light of a supernatural manifestation first threw open to my view my neglected obligations and concealed defects.
The vespers were over,--the monks rose and paced forth two by two, not with bent heads and downcast eyes as though affecting an abased humility, but with the free and stately bearing of kings returning from some high conquest.
Down to the very depths of humiliation he sternly abased his complaining, struggling, wounded, and sorely resentful spirit, .
He only knew that he was abased in his own sense of deep injury towards a fellow-creature.
If not strong enough for this, the alternative was a daily painful retreat to her lodging, whence she might look out on the heaps of cinders in the farrier's yard, her spirit abased the while with the experience of her own weakness.
The Pharisee in the Gospel looked down with an air of proud indifference on the self-abased publican; he imagined himself very high up and the publican very low down in the scale; yet how different were God's thoughts about the two!
In these straits, he condescended to extend the kiss of peace to his old foe Goldoni, and Goldoni abased himself to the point of accepting the salute.
They hastened to fall upon their knees; they poured out their wealth upon the altars of hypocrisy; they abased and debased themselves; from their minds they banished all doubts, and made haste to crawl in the very dust of humility.
Honour and power had come to him, and they had abased him to the dust.
It was indeed an hysterical revulsion, and his frame shook, and his hands clenched themselves on her flesh as he abased himself before her.
He thought of all this; but this humiliation--if he could have so abased himself--would have been useless.
If you are abased it is by penitence, not by nature.
They have not withdrawn from him, but drawn near; they have not abased themselves, but.
Shall either the pomp of the mighty or the wretchedness of the abased endure?
My body hath borne imprisonment that your souls may be released from bondage, and We have consented to be abased that ye may be exalted.
Think not that thou hast abased this Youth or prevailed over Him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abased" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
