OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14483

humiliation

/hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
humillación • papeada
The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of ba…
humillación
The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.
Loving and beloved by him, how different would her destiny have been! An utter sense of desolation came over her; a terror of the future, an overwhelming agony in the present. That…
One morning Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were having breakfast when Lincoln did something that aroused the fiery temper of his wife. What, no one remembers now. But Mrs. Lincoln, in a rage…
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