English vocabulary examples in context: abase
Vocabulary in context: abase -- Example 1.
Didn't I love you with all my heart, even passionately, and did I conceal the fact from you, that it was dangerous to give yourself into my power, to abase yourself before me, and that I want to be dominated?
Vocabulary in context: abase -- Example 2.
Today she overwhelmed me with shrill reproaches, and abased me to the level of a hearth-brush.
Vocabulary in context: abase -- Example 3.
Sometimes, when I have felt truth lead towards it, I have found myself disqualified by a superficial friendship; and as the sense thereof hath abased me and my cries have been to the Lord, so I have been humbled and made content to appear weak, or as a fool for His sake; and thus a door hath been opened to enter upon it.