Humiliation

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]

1: Ταπείνωσις (Strong'S #5014 — Noun Feminine — tapeinosis — tap-i'-no-sis )

akin to tapeinos (see above), is rendered "low estate" in  Luke 1:48; "humiliation,"  Acts 8:33;  Philippians 3:21 , RV "(the body of our) humiliation," AV, "(our) vile (body);"  James 1:10 , where "in that he is made low," is, lit., "in his humiliation." See Estate , Low.

King James Dictionary [2]

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.

Webster's Dictionary [3]

(1): ( n.) The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission.

(2): ( n.) The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.

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