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Self-abasing

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Self`-a`bas´ing
a.1.Lowering or humbling one's self.


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At other times Coleridge's marginalia express a purely personal state of mind, as in this self-abasing note in a pamphlet on Conservative Reform (1832): 'We are all, the best of us, imperfect Mortals, more or less laden with Sins, and sin-begotten infirmities.
Leaf is about the last athlete you'd expect to be self-abasing.
For a moment, let's develop this idea of humility in negative terms, in terms of what evaluational humility does not mean: Not Sackcloth and Ashes * not a "sackcloth and ashes," self-abasing, self-denying, self-effacing sort of humility.
 
 
 
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