About The Word Humility
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Humility
Humility Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Humility?
[n] a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride; "not everyone regards humility as a virtue"
[n] a humble feeling; "he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope" Synonyms | Synonyms for Humility: humbleness | humbleness Related Terms | Find terms related to Humility: acquiescence | altruism | amenability | back seat | bashfulness | commitment | compliance | consecration | dedication | devotion | diffidence | disinterest | disinterestedness | dovelikeness | gentleness | humbleness | inferiority | juniority | lamblikeness | lowliness | meekness | mildness | minority | modesty | nonresistance | nonviolent resistance | obedience | passive resistance | passiveness | passivity | peaceableness | Quakerism | quietism | quietness | resignation | sacrifice | second fiddle | second string | secondariness | self-abasement | self-abnegation | self-denial | self-devotion | self-effacement | self-forgetfulness | self-immolation | selflessness | self-neglect | self-neglectfulness | self-renouncement | self-sacrifice | self-subjection | servility | shyness | subjection | submission | submissiveness | subordinacy | subordination | subservience | tameness | third string | timidity | timorousness | unacquisitiveness | unambitiousness | unassumingness | unboastfulness | uncomplainingness | unobtrusiveness | unpossessiveness | unpresumptuousness | unpretentiousness | unselfishness See Also | feeling | meekness | meekness | self-depreciation | submission | trait Humility In Webster's Dictionary \Hu*mil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Humilities}. [OE. humilite, OF.
humilit['e], humelit['e], F. humilit['e], fr. L. humiliatis.
See {Humble}.]
1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride
and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of
one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through
imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. --Acts
xx. 19.
2. An act of submission or courtesy.
With these humilities they satisfied the young king.
--Sir J.
Davies.
Syn: Lowliness; humbleness; meekness; modesty; diffidence.
Usage: {Humility}, {Modesty}, {Diffidence}. Diffidence is a
distrust of our powers, combined with a fear lest our
failure should be censured, since a dread of failure
unconnected with a dread of censure is not usually
called diffidence. It may be carried too far, and is
not always, like modesty and humility, a virtue.
Modesty, without supposing self-distrust, implies an
unwillingness to put ourselves forward, and an absence
of all over-confidence in our own powers. Humility
consists in rating our claims low, in being willing to
waive our rights, and take a lower place than might be
our due. It does not require of us to underrate
ourselves.
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