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 Translation for 'abasement' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   an abasement | abasements
SYNO abasement | abjection | degradation | ...
auðmýking {kv}abasement
lítillækkun {kv}abasement
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Translation for 'abasement' from English to Icelandic

abasement
auðmýking {kv}

lítillækkun {kv}
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Usage Examples English
  • Sex, sexual abasement, destructive passions, religion, self-destruction, pornography and frankly lewd topics of paraphilia and sadomasochism are expressed in decadent styles of swing revival and acoustic folk ballads.
  • Twelve-step programs are described as predominantly male organizations which force female members to accept self-abasement, powerlessness and external focus, and reject responsibility.
  • The Quran requires their "abasement and poverty" in the form of the poll tax jizya.
  • As part of Psalm 113 ("In exitu Israel") it was recited liturgically as part of the Paschal vigil, the celebrants kneeling in a gesture of self-abasement when this verse was reached.
  • This he translates, "The idol sits far off on the dire hill, suffers abasement in sorrow and heart-rage as the den of pain had ordained for it."

  • Bowing and curtseying remain as examples of the self-abasement of hand-sucking, bowing and scraping, prostration, kowtowing and "proskynesis" formerly demanded.
  • He particularly rejected elements of the Novardok philosophy, such as their extreme self-effacement and self-abasement.
  • Self-abasement is humiliating oneself when one feels lower or less deserving of respect.
  • "No" contains a nuance of respectfulness towards the person being discussed, whilst "ga" is used for either expressing a degree of self-abasement or humility, or for more clearly emphasising who or what is being discussed.
  • I never forgave my mother for exposing my childhood to that humiliating abasement out of love for my father.” Yet the meek attitude she adopted when petitioning was cast aside following the death of her husband when, at his funeral, she courageously confronts and insults the local Francoist authorities.

  • and traditionally related to the nativity of Jesus as a symbol for the mystery of the self-abasement of God in his Incarnation.
  • Rain soon fell in consequence of this self-abasement.
  • Andy Gill wrote for "The Independent" that "The high priestess of emotional turmoil returns to her apparently turbulent personal life on this latest album, vacillating between obsessive devotion, self-assertive morale-boosting and the kind of masochistic abasement depicted in 'Mr Wrong'."
  • There have been many social problems with Afreeca TV such as offers for sexual favors and abasement of disabled individuals.
  • It is located south of the Tatras proper, from which it is separated by the valleys of the Váh and Poprad rivers (the Liptov-Spiš abasement).

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