NODE / 1013attestedPresent-Day English
humiliation
TRANSLITERATION humiliationPRONUNCIATION /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/
act, state, or instance of humiliating; degradation, disgrace, or shame
- DATE
- 14th century–today
- SENSE
- disgrace action state noun
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:1:humiliation:attested:sense:disgrace-action-state-noun
American Heritage and Merriam-Webster document the current action, state, and instance structure; the modern shame center does not erase earlier humbling senses.
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Middle English · late 14th-century Middle English record · humbling abasement conditionhumiliacioun
humbling, abasement, or humbled condition
- SOUND
- Middle English humiliacioun continues as humiliation with modern -ation spelling and English pronunciation.
- MEANING
- A broad humbling or abasement noun develops the current action, state, instance, degradation, disgrace, and shame center.
- CHRONOLOGY
- The Middle English occurrence predates the source-reported English verb humiliate.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The sources identify the form sequence and current senses but do not date one exact semantic switch.
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