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• n  voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

• Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops.
• They offer moving insights into the adherents' obsessive loyalty to their leader, whom they addressed as "Dad, "and reveal minds bent upon self-abasement and sometimes self .
• But the abiding fascination of the case resides in the story of the high-minded, stylish lady who descended to the depths of self-abasement and violence.

• penance
• self-mortification

Quotes

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• Winston Churchill in FrontPage magazine.com
  Churchill noted the connection in a speech from 1933: "Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals. They come from the acceptance of defeatist...
• Avigdor Lieberman in Ha'aretz
  The people are frustrated by our loss of national honor, our weakness and self-abasement toward Egypt,Lieberman told the interviewer. "The State of Israel is acting toward Egypt like a battered woman ...... Egypt is the only state in the...