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/hjumˌɪliˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Humiliation n.

The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.

The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission. "The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood."

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Etymology of 'Humiliation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Humiliation" Quotes from Famous Books

... nominal service of Piedmont—to put aside, for good and all, that brilliant Sardinian uniform in which he looked to such advantage. We can imagine how this subject was talked over—how Alfieri, with that savage pleasure of his in the self-infliction of pain and humiliation, exposed to the Countess all the little, mean motives which had deterred him or which had encouraged him in his liberation from political servitude; we can imagine how she chid him for his rash ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... and for several reasons. First, the child selected was the son and the grandson of ultra conservative princes, and we cannot but believe that as she had placed herself in the hands of the conservative party, it was their selection rather than hers. Second, it must have been a humiliation to her ever since she discovered that her nephew, whom she had selected and placed upon the throne in order to keep the succession in her own family, being the same generation as her son who had died, could not worship him as his ancestor, and hence could not legally occupy the ...

— Court Life in China • Isaac Taylor Headland

... Danton, with an obvious effort to disentangle himself from the humiliation of the moment, 'I suppose ...

— The Return • Walter de la Mare

... straws. Since that first moment, when in the Medicine Bow saloon the Virginian had shut the mouth of Trampas by a word, the man had been trying to get even without risk; and at each successive clash of his weapon with the Virginian's, he had merely met another public humiliation. Therefore, now at the Sunk Creek Ranch in these cold white days, a certain lurking insolence in his gait showed plainly his opinion that by disaffecting Shorty he had made ...

— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister

... shrank from the awkwardness of the task, from the humiliation of it, and said, "Could not Short manage it by post, without a personal encounter?" Mr. Short thought not. Finally, it was agreed that if another week elapsed without bringing the promised answer from Mrs. Carnegie, ...

— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

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