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Humble

adjective

(compar. humbler; superl. humblest)

1.

Low or inferior in station or quality. Synonyms: low, lowly, modest, small. "A lowly parish priest" , "A modest man of the people" , "Small beginnings"

2.

Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful. "Essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"

3.

Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work). Synonyms: lowly, menial.

4.

Of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense). Synonyms: base, baseborn, lowly. "Of humble (or lowly) birth"

verb

(past & past part. humbled; pres. part. humbling)

1.

Cause to be unpretentious.

2.

Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of. Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify.

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"Humble" Quotes from Famous Books

... if we cast our bread on the waters, we shall find it after many days. But simple souls are too humble to recognize it. ...

— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

... agitators decided to resist; a mutiny occurred in one regiment and the attempt at disbandment failed. Then followed the seizure of the king by Cornet Joyce, Cromwell's definite adherence to the policy of the army, the signing of the manifestoes, a Humble Representation and a Solemn Engagement, and the establishment of the army council composed of officers and agitators. Having, at an assembly on Thriplow Heath, near Royston, virtually refused the offers made by parliament, the ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... meekness, of patience, and of love is henceforth the one God of my heart. It is now the one bent and desire of my soul to seek for all my salvation in and through the merits and mediation of the meek, humble, patient, resigned, suffering Lamb of God, who alone has power to bring forth the blessed birth of those heavenly virtues in my soul. What a comfort it is to think that this Lamb of God, Son of the Father, Light of the World; this Glory of heaven ...

— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte

... Claire has toward Mr. Ronald! You'd think he had give himself dead away to her, an' was down on his knee-pans humble as a 'Piscerpalian sayin' the Literny in Lent, grubbin' about among the dust she treads on, to touch the hem o' her garment. Whereas, in some way unbeknownst to me, an' prob'ly unbeknownst to him, he's touched her pride, which is why she's so ...

— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann

... situation," said Milburgh ponderously. "Miss Rider had been dismissed, and I was on the point of ruin. Her mother would be involved in the crash—those were the thoughts which ran through my mind as I sat in my humble dining-room in Camden Town. Then the idea flashed upon me. I wondered whether Odette Rider loved her mother sufficiently well to make the great sacrifice, to take full responsibility for the irregularities which had occurred ...

— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace

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