abasement
Examples of abasing
abasing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We then find the politicians
abasing themselves and saying how much they got it wrong and how right they are to say how much they got it wrong.
From the
Hansard archive
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In his poem he attacks womankind,
abasing them as vile and disgusting creatures.
From
Wikipedia
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