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卑しめる賤しめる
いやしめる
1. [v1,vt]
▶ to demean
▶ to despise
▶ to treat with contempt
▶ to abase

Conjugations


History:
4. A 2023-03-18 01:09:27  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2023-03-18 00:47:10  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 卑しめ  │ 4,988 │ 82.1% │
│ 賤しめ  │   206 │  3.4% │ - add (daijr/s, koj, meikyo, sankoku, etc.)
│ いやしめ │   883 │ 14.5% │
╰─ーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>賤しめる</keb>
2. A 2018-06-05 02:29:11  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<gloss>to treat with contempt</gloss>
1. A* 2018-06-03 23:18:35  Alan Cheng <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijs, eij
  Comments:
I think "to demean" is a more appropriate translation in many contexts. Also removed "(oneself)" because it suggests that 卑しめる only applies to oneself.
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<gloss>to demean</gloss>
@@ -14 +15 @@
-<gloss>to abase (oneself)</gloss>
+<gloss>to abase</gloss>

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