humiliant

English

Etymology

Latin humilians, present participle of humiliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hjuːˈmɪliənt/

Adjective

humiliant (comparative more humiliant, superlative most humiliant)

1. humiliating; humbling
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile

     But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed
     By my percipiency of sin and fall
     In melancholy of humiliant thoughts.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for humiliant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Catalan

Verb

humiliant

1. present participle of humiliar

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /y.mi.ljɑ̃/

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Verb

humiliant

1. present participle of humilier

Adjective

humiliant (feminine singular humiliante, masculine plural humiliants, feminine plural humiliantes)

1. humiliating

Further reading

• “humiliant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

humiliant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of humiliō