Definition of "abasement" []

• The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Swearing allegiance to the powers that be in a ritual of public abasement is something that should have gone out with feudalism."
• "Admit what you don't know (self-abasement is not attractive, by the way) and listen to the information you are given."
• "Without George, Equiano's abasement is without an agent, and therefore his connection to the invisible church reverts from one of masochistic practice to one of readerly identification."