humiliation
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< Late Latin humiliatio < humiliare (“‘to humiliate’”); see humiliate.
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
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humiliation (plural humiliations)
- The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
- The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.
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- humiliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- humiliation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] French
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From humilier 'to humiliate' (itself from Latin humiliare, from humilis 'humble') + -ation
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humiliation f. (plural humiliations)
- A humiliation, active or passive
- Alors que l'humiliation d'une fessée cul-nu en présence du petit frère qu'il a abusé blesse l'orgueil de Pascal pire que sa peau, assister à son humiliation répare la fierté du petit
- While the humiliation of a bare-butt spanking in the presence of the kid brother he had abused hurts Pascal's pride worse then his hide, witnessing his humbling restores the kid's pride
- Alors que l'humiliation d'une fessée cul-nu en présence du petit frère qu'il a abusé blesse l'orgueil de Pascal pire que sa peau, assister à son humiliation répare la fierté du petit
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- abaissement m.
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- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

