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No. Christian Latin and historical French include lowering, abasement, mortifying discipline, and self-humbling. Chaucer’s Middle English occurrence appears within a treatment of humility, while current American Heritage definitions center degradation, disgrace, and shame.
/hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/ · noun
The act, state, or instance of humiliating or being humiliated; degradation, disgrace, or shame.
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Documents the modern degradation, disgrace, and shame center.
Current definitionsPublishes lowering, abasement, mortification, hostile humbling, and self-humbling senses.
Christian Latin meanings and French records before 1449 and in 1495Locates the Middle English noun in a humility argument.
Parson’s Tale occurrence within the remedy for prideThe dossier preserves the earlier humbling field on separate nodes and edges instead of projecting modern shame backward.