demesne.
resources; means.
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).
To mortify.
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
An entreaty.
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly.
To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.