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Definition:
The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a disparaging remark, a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect. Also called put-down.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs.

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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