Humble

Definition of Humble

Hum´ble

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

- Cowley.

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

- Jas. iv. 6.

She should be humble who would please.

- Prior.

Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.

- Washington.

Humble plant
(Bot.) a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva).

To eat humble pie
to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; - a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. - Halliwell.

Hornless. See Hummel.

v. t.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

[imp. & p. p. Humbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling .]

Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues
Have humbled to all strokes.

- Shak.

The genius which humbled six marshals of France.

- Macaulay.

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; - often used rexlexively.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you.

- 1 Pet. v. 6.

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