humilityn.
/hjuːˈmɪlɪti/ 1.
a. The quality of being humble or having a lowly opinion of oneself; meekness, lowliness, humbleness: the opposite of pride or haughtiness.
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the mind > emotion > humility > [noun]
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meeklaikc1175
meeknessc1175
meekshipc1225
lowshipc1230
humilityc1315
meekheadc1325
lowness1340
povertyc1350
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umblete1377
humbleness1388
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lowlinessa1413
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self-contempt1563
humilitudea1586
demissness1603
lowlihood1818
c1315 Shoreham 117 Thorȝ clennesse and humylyte.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 200 And with full great humilite He suffreth his adversite.
1419 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 65 With all subjection and humilitee We recomend us to ȝoure roial Majestee.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 262 Thow that..Gabriell send..On to the mayd of maist humilite.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 40 (stage direct.) Enter Coriolanus in a gowne of Humility, with Menenius.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xi. 99 That is true humility to have a meane esteeme of himselfe out of a true apprehension of Gods greatnesse.
1757 D. Hume Passions in Ess. (1817) II. 175 Humility..is a dissatisfaction with ourselves on account of some defect or infirmity.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1876) ii. i. 52 The humility which acknowledges present insufficiency.
b. with plural. An act of humility or self-abasement.
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the mind > emotion > humility > [noun] > an act of
humility1612
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [noun] > manifestation of respect > act(s) of deference
submissions1577
humility1612
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 49 With these humilities they satisfied the young King.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) I. 32 All the tricksy humilities of the ambitious candidates for the favorable suffrages of the judicious Public.
2. Humble or low condition, rank, or estate; unpretentiousness, humbleness.
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the mind > emotion > humility > [noun] > of rank or birth
meanness1579
humility1623
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun]
lowness?c1225
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baseness1552
humility1623
non-class1973
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Humilitie, low estate, basenesse.
1757 S. Foote Author i. 8 But how will a Person of his Pride and Pedigree, relish the Humility of this Apartment?
1833 C. Lamb Ellistoniana in Last Ess. Elia 42 I made a sort of apology for the humility of the fare.
1842 T. De Quincey Shakspeare in Encycl. Brit. XX. 177/2 His course lay..through the humilities of absolute poverty.
3. A local name of several North American birds of the family Scolopacidæ.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of
humility1634
simplicity1634
surfbird1839
spathe-bill1840
tilt-up1848
stilt sandpiper1872
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 31 The Humilities or Simplicities (as I may rather call them) bee of two sorts, the biggest being as big as a greene Plover, the other as big as birds we call knots in England.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Humility, otherwise called Simplicity, a sort of Bird in New England.
1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 256 The Humility is so called because it speaks the word humility, and seldom mounts high in the air.
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