Humiliate vs Defame - What's the difference?

Humiliate is a related term of defame.

is that humiliate is to injure a person's dignity and self-respect while defame is to harm or diminish the reputation of.

(humiliat)

To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

* debase * disgrace * humble * shame * See also

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(defam)

To harm or diminish the reputation of.

to defame somebody

To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.

* Dryden

My guilt thy growing virtues did defame ; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.

To publish a libel about.

(archaic) To charge; to accuse.

* Rebecca is defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.

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