Self-contempt
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A feeling of contempt toward oneself. uncountable
"[R]egard this Earth / Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou / Requitest for knee-worship, prayer, and praise, / And toil, and hecatombs of broken hearts, / With fear and self-contempt and barren hope."
Example
More examples"[R]egard this Earth / Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou / Requitest for knee-worship, prayer, and praise, / And toil, and hecatombs of broken hearts, / With fear and self-contempt and barren hope."
Etymology
From self- + contempt.
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