Examples of use of ABASED
1. Did no one tell them that every one who exalteth himself shall be abased?
2. In the case of Mr Mandelson and Mr Milburn, they have publicly abased themselves in front of Gordon Brown, whom they once did so much to undermine.
3. As women‘s economic power grows, their image is increasingly abased and sexualised, and boys learn they can stay adolescents for ever.
4. He wouldn‘t even look up to heaven, but the Bible says "smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner." Jesus said, "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted" (Luke 18:10–14). Prayer isn‘t about getting things right by ourselves or trying hard enough.
5. Either to go on until the so–called natural death with the pains and all the difficulty, or to try to make a lonely suicide which has this heavy risk. ‘If we can, and if we say, we do open for you an emergency exit, the depression in the tunnel goes, they can see other possibilities, they have new opportunities.‘ Quoting 1'th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, he said the English were ‘abased and made ridiculous by their stupid ecclesiastical superstition‘. Defending his controversial stance, he said: ‘There’s no slippery slope at all.