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will abase

  • future tense
    of abase.
    abase
    verb (used with object)
    to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.

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Ye will soon know on whom there cometh a doom that will abase him, and who it is that lieth.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

I will abase myself before none but thee, and in my ear there is no commandment but thine; and all other decrees will I mock.

From Judith, a play in three acts Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith by Arnold Bennett

Few men are so humble as not to be proud of their abilitys; and nothing will abase them more than this—What hast thou, but what thou hast received?

From Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell

I will abase myself with a trusting heart, and shrink from all self-esteem at war with the true principles to which a follower of Christ should cling.

From Fifteen Years in Hell by Luther Benson

This teaches us that him who humbles himself, God will exalt; and him who exalts himself, God will abase.

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

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