τᾰπείν-ωσις, εως, ἡ,
lowering, of a movement in dancing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 815a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 lessening, opposed to αὔξησις, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 689a25 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; reduction of a swelling, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.816. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 humiliation, abasement, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.51 (_plural_), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.33.10; τ. καὶ δουλεία 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.45; δυνάμεώς τινων ποιεῖν -σιν [prev. author] 11.87, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aristides” 7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀγέννεια καὶ τ. [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 1457.4] Refs 1st c.BC+]; low estate, low condition, [[ LXX.Gen.29.32, NT.Luke.1.48, +others ] LXX+NT]
__4 lowness of style, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.7a, 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus “Inst.” 8.3.48. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__5 dejection of a planet (compare ταπείνωμα), [[ 2nd c.AD: Dorotheus Astrologus 86. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]