abasement : Idioms & Phrases

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self-abasement

  • noun voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
    penance; self-mortification.
WordNet
Self`-a*base"ment noun
Definitions
  1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
  2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.
Webster 1913