Noun

(en noun)

The act of humiliating]] or [[humble#Verb, humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

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    One morning Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were having breakfast when Lincoln did something that aroused the fiery temper of his wife. What, no one remembers now. But Mrs. Lincoln, in a rage, dashed a cup of hot coffee into her husband's face. And she did it in front of the other boarders.
    Saying nothing, Lincoln sat there in humiliation and silence while Mrs. Early came with a wet towel and wiped off his face and clothes.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality.

* 1832 , , "Bon Bon":

His large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw not altogether unworthy of a dog.

* 1912 , , The Reef , ch. 33:

She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.

* 2009 , Gilbert Cruz, " The Many Faces of Addiction (Book review of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life'' by Benoit Denizet-Lewis)," ''Time , 12 Jan.:

There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.

The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.