HUMILIATION


Meaning of HUMILIATION in English

(ˌ) ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷lēˈāshən noun

( -s )

Etymology: Middle English humiliacioun, from Middle French humiliation, from Late Latin humiliation-, humiliatio, from humiliatus + Latin -ion-, -io -ion

1.

a. : the act of humiliating

His incarnation was the humiliation of His godhead — R.J.Wilberforce

b. : the state of being humiliated

what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation — Charles Dickens

2. : an instance of humiliation

watched China undergo one humiliation after another — E.P.Snow

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