The landlord, abasing himself outwardly, took solace of a private curse as he turned into the shadow of his porch-- 'These skipjacks of the Sforzas!
Did he hope so to hoodwink heaven, by abasing himself in the vestments of remorse?
If she has not the courage to make a fool of herself, by abasing and humiliating herself, she must ask her superior to give her some humiliating penance to suppress her feelings of higher nature as proud and coming from the devil.
Is there any more abasing and humbling principle than love?
In itself it is filthiness, and contrary to God’s holiness; an abasing of the immortal soul; a spot in the face of the Lord of the creatures, that hath far debased him under them all.
But, Christians, observe this evil in yourselves and suffer this mystery of godliness to be wrought in you,—the abasing of yourselves, the denial of yourselves.
This is the great design that God hath in the world,—to declare himself and his own name, that it may be wondered and admired at by men, and this cannot be but by our ruin, abasing us in the dust.
S: They make their oaths to serve as a cover so they turn away from Allah's way; therefore they shall have an abasing chastisement.
S: And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger and goes beyond His limits, He will cause him to enter fire to abide in it, and he shall have an abasing chastisement.
S: And as to Samood, We showed them the right way, but they chose error above guidance, so there overtook them the scourge of an abasing chastisement for what they earned.
S: And when he comes to know of any of Our communications, he takes it for a jest; these it is that shall have abasing chastisement.
S: And of men is he who takes instead frivolous discourse to lead astray from Allah's path without knowledge, and to take it for a mockery; these shall have an abasing chastisement.
They had returned from a concert, and to see the man, fresh from his triumph, abasinghimself before her so shamelessly, gave her a vicious pleasure.
She was abasing herself under a temptation--she might be bowed under a burden as the result.
How abasing and humbling to human pride is it thus to conceive, that all have sinned, and, in the sight of God, are hell-deserving.
Let not thy shame nor thy self-abasing apprehension of thyself, drive thee from the firm and permanent ground of hope, which is the promise, and the doctrine of an Advocate with the Father.
Had there been any pretence of observing ordinary judicial forms, the completeness with which he was represented as abasing himself would have overreached its purpose.
Here, then, Hedwig is not to offer herself in sacrifice, but a pet animal, thus abasing the idea from Christianity to paganism.
This History also yeldeth contempt of them, which in their affection forget themselues abasing the Generosity of their Courages to be reputed of fooles the true champions of loue, whose like are they that desire such regarde.
Now he would neuer haue thoughte that Zilia had borne hym so great good wil, as by abasing the pryde of hir Corage, would haue come so farre to ease the griefe of him, whome by sutch greate torments she had so wonderfully persecuted.
It may please your Majesty to understand, that the first occasion of the fall of the exchange did grow by the King's Majesty, your late father, in abasing his coin from vi ounces fine to iii ounces fine.
But you must not think that all the sailors were alike in abasing themselves before this man.
But some of these poor people must have been so used to the mostabasing calamities, that the atmosphere of a lazar-house almost seemed their natural air.
Whether such a procedure would exert a correspondingly elevating or abasing influence upon the intellectual development of the two classes is a problem for anthropologists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abasing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
