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Definition of Humble
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Humble
Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. 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. Hornless. See Hummel. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. 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. Related Definitions:
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Humble Quotations
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? Henry David Thoreau At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. Muhammad Ali Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Douglas MacArthur Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. Jawaharlal Nehru |
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Humble Translations
humble in Dutch is nederig, onderdanig, deemoedig humble in French is humble humble in Latin is humilis humble in Norwegian is beskjeden, ydmyk, ydmyke humble in Spanish is humilde |
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