Meanings
- nonstandardrareuncountableBeratement of oneself.
However, this self-beration had little effect on her eyes as, with a will of their own, they touched on the curve of his lips.
1983, Lynsey Stevens, Forbidden Wine, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 82 more examples
There are a few things that I have always found helpful when I am reflecting upon where I am, without it degenerating into a futile exercise in narcissistic navel-gazing or self-beration.
1999, Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today, Oneworld, →ISBN, page 53Writing in a post-Waterloo culture that repudiated the trappings of usurping authority and revolutionary time, Austen depicts Sir Walter as the perfect example of a subject born out of ressentiment, affectively retreading the ground of the past with an impotent self-beration that props up his calcified sense of prestige.
2009, Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 163
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