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semenEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024- SemenMiddle English · word_semen_vb_1
Semen, v. to load, to be a weight, S.—AS. séman, from séam; see above.
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Semen, v. to make two parties the same, to conciliate, hence to suit, to appear suitable or seemly, later, to seem, S; seme, S2; seme, to reconcile, S; semet, pr. s., seems fitting, S. Phr.: to my seminge, as it appears
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Middle English / Indo-European
humiliacioun
humbling, abasement, or humbled condition
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- late 14th-century Middle English record
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Old French / Indo-European
humilité
quality of one who is humble; abasement before God
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- Old French, attested from the later 10th century
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Late Latin / Indo-European
humiliātiō
action of lowering; abasement; subduing or humbling through mortification
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- Christian and Late Latin
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Did humiliation always center disgrace and shame?
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.
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Humiliation is evidenced in English before humiliate.
Chaucer’s Middle English humiliacioun occurs in a humility passage; Merriam-Webster reports the English verb humiliate only circa 1534. Christian Latin and French preserve lowering, abasement, mortification, and self-humbling before current definitions center degradation, disgrace, and shame.
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