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self-humiliating

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His rapid advance from Outer Purgatory to Purgatory was due to the merit of a self-humiliating act performed in favor of a friend.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)

Is it not at the peril of our souls wilfully to violate this self-humiliating but imperative law?—Ed.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John