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Humiliation — American Heritage Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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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.
*dhg̑hem-
*dhg̑hem- → *dhghem- → *(dh)ghom-o- → humus → humilis → humiliāre → humiliātus → humiliātiō → humiliation → humiliacioun → humiliation
Current definitionsDocuments the modern degradation, disgrace, and shame center.
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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.
Current definitionsDocuments the modern degradation, disgrace, and shame center.
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humiliation → humiliacioun
Present-Day English → Middle English · orthographic continuation
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- 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.
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- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Definitions: degradation; disgraced state and shame; humiliating circumstanceDocuments the current semantic center.
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Documents degradation, disgraced state, shame, and humiliating circumstance.
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