Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act. 2. (n.) Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.

Multi-Version Concordance Self-abasement (2 Occurrences) Colossians 2:23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use. (See NAS RSV) Ezra 9:5 And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God, (See NIV)