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▪ I. humiliate, v.|hjuːˈmɪlɪeɪt|
[f. humiliāt-, ppl. stem of late L. humiliāre, f. humili-s humble a.1 Cf. F. humilier.]
†1. trans. To make low or humble in position, condition, or feeling; to humble. refl. To humble or abase oneself, to stoop; sometimes, to prostrate oneself, to bow. Obs.
1533–4in Suppression Monasteries (Camden) 22 We be..set in comforte to humyliate our selfes as prostrate afore your highnes. 1577tr. Fisher's Treat. Prayer (R.), For God his wyll is, that we should humiliate and deiect our selues in the sight of his maiestie. 1601–2W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 20 Such a religious man may not..humiliate him⁓selfe to execute the rite of homage. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. i. iv. (1676) 121 How much we ought to..examine and humiliate our selves, seek to God, and call to him for mercy. 1656Blount, Humiliate, to make low or humble. 1656B. Harris Parival's Iron Age i. xvii. 128 They might well fear, lest all the States of Germany humiliated, or joyned to those of the Emperour, he might come and re⁓demand some Towns amongst them. 1776S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleas. II. 17 He whom indigence and the strokes of ill-fortune have not..humiliated.
2. To lower or depress the dignity or self-respect of; to subject to humiliation; to mortify.
1757[see humiliating ppl. a.]. 1796W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XX. 570 The luxury of individuals often..humiliates those who miss its delights. 1817Southey Lett. (1856) III. 66, I have..to complain of my counsel..for humiliating me. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 113 Mere donations..humiliate as much as they relieve. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §3. 362 The country was humiliated by defeat. 1879C. Rossetti Seek & F. 161 When we ask to be humbled, we must not recoil from being humiliated.
Hence huˈmiliated ppl. a.
1782E. N. Blower Geo. Bateman I. 81 Bateman was at that period in a humiliated state of mind. 1810Southey Ess. (1832) I. 25 What a spirit would be kindled throughout groaning and humiliated Europe! 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 280 The humiliated tillers of the soil.
▪ II. humiliate, a. and n.
[ad. late L. humiliāt-us, pa. pple. of humiliāre (see prec.).]
A. adj.
†a. Humiliated, humbled (obs.).
b. Belonging to the order of Humiliates.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 81 They would be more humiliate and deiected. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. (N.Y.) VII. 689 A female order of Benedictines, known as humiliate nuns, or nuns of Blassoni.
†B. n. (With capital H.) One of an order of monks and nuns who affected great humility in dress, behaviour, and occupation. Obs.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. (1632) 554 Nor were those wylie Humiliates regardlesse of choosing a delicate plot..where hee built a goodly Abbey of their Order. 1656Blount Glossogr., Humiliates, a Religious Order, instituted about the year 1166 by certain persons exiled by Fredericus Barbarossa. |