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Answer for the clue "Disgracing publicly ", 7 letters:
shaming

Word definitions for shaming in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shame \Shame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shamed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shaming .] To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame. Were there but one righteous in the world, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The activity of shaming (see the verb shame). vb. (present participle of shame English)

Usage examples of shaming.

I fell to sleep with the firm resolve of driving her from my room the next morning, after shaming her with the story of the scene I had witnessed.

Of course, now the Americans have renamed it Jacksonville, shaming the place with the name of that militarist who sits athrone in Washington.

Indeed, all through the throes of those shaming days, I heard but one refrain.

At the thought of losing her this way, he wept, sobbing like a frightened child in the dark, until he realized that his tears were shaming him all the more.

No escape was there from such shaming and pain, no escape from his raucous laughter, no release from the burning need he had begun.

Weakling wetness seeped from between my closed lids to roll to my cheeks, shaming me by their presence, yet was I unable to stem the flow.

In no way might this be done, save through the shaming of such a war leader.

He would take me as the others had, shaming me in my weakness, showing me again that I was naught when beneath a male.

So usual a thing had my shaming by Ceralt become, that those others within the shelter no longer took note of it.