What is "belittlement"

Usage examples of "belittlement".

And she considered herself an educator despite his belittlement of her work.

I am a Romanoff by marriage merely, But I do feel a rare belittlement And loud laconic brow-beating herein!

I suddenly perceived that she saw her constant belittlement and stings as a sort of flirtation.

Just as a husband may beat his wife, or a wife pare her husband's soul with belittlement, so may a human dominate his Wit partner.