Self-abasing


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Self`-a`bas´ing


a. 1. Lowering or humbling one's self.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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There is something ludicrous, even self-abasing, about all this, and Raphael writes about Calisch with notable irony.
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