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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HUMILIA'TION, n. The act of humbling; the state of being humbled.
1. Descent from an elevated state or rank to one that is low or humble.
The former was a humiliation of deity; the latter, a humiliation of manhood.
2. The act of abasing pride; or the state of being reduced to lowliness of mind, meekness, penitence and submission.
The doctrine he preached was humiliation and repentance.
3. Abasement of pride; mortification.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
2: strong feelings of embarrassment [syn: chagrin, humiliation, mortification]
3: an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another" [syn: humiliation, mortification]
4: depriving one of self-esteem [syn: humiliation, abasement]

Merriam Webster's

noun see humiliate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Humiliation Hu*mil`i*a"tion, n. [L. humiliatio: cf. F. humiliation.] 1. The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification. --Bp. Hopkins. 2. The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission. The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood. --Hooker.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(humiliations) 1. Humiliation is the embarrassment and shame you feel when someone makes you appear stupid, or when you make a mistake in public. She faced the humiliation of discussing her husband's affair. 2. A humiliation is an occasion or a situation in which you feel embarrassed and ashamed. The result is a humiliation for the prime minister. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Humbling, abasement, mortification, degradation, crushing, putting to shame, dishonoring. 2. Humility, meekness, humbleness, lowliness, lowness, submissiveness.

Moby Thesaurus

abasement, affront, aspersion, atrocity, awkwardness, belittlement, breaking, brickbat, burning shame, byword, byword of reproach, comedown, conquering, contempt, contumely, crushing, cut, cut direct, debasement, deflation, degradation, depreciation, derogation, descent, despite, detraction, dirty shame, disconcertedness, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparagement, disregard, domestication, dump, embarrassment, enormity, flout, flouting, gentling, gibe, hangdog look, humbled pride, humbling, ignominy, indignity, injury, insult, jeer, jeering, letdown, low-down dirty shame, mock, mockery, mortification, obloquy, offense, outrage, put-down, quelling, rebuff, reduction, reproach, repulse, scandal, scoff, scurrility, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shaming, slight, sneer, sniff, snort, snub, spurn, spurning, subdual, suppression, taming, taunt, the cold shoulder, the go-by, treading down, uncomplimentary remark