Example Sentences

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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 Campbell, Helen

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 Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

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 Bennett, Arnold

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

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 Benson, Luther