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humility|hjuːˈmɪlɪtɪ|
[a. F. humilité (earlier umilitet, 11th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. humilitāt-em, f. humilis humble.]
1. The quality of being humble or having a lowly opinion of oneself; meekness, lowliness, humbleness: the opposite of pride or haughtiness.
c1315Shoreham 117 Thorȝ clennesse and humylyte. 1390Gower Conf. III. 200 And with full great humilite He suffreth his adversite. 1419R. Holme in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 65 With all subjection and humilitee We recomend us to ȝoure roial Majestee. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxx. 4 Thow that..Gabriell send..On-to the mayd of maist humilite. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. iii. 43 stage direct., Enter Coriolanus in a gowne of Humility, with Menenius. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. xi. (1640) 99 That is true humility to have a meane esteeme of himselfe out of a true apprehension of Gods greatnesse. 1757Hume Ess., Passions (1817) II. 175 Humility..is a dissatisfaction with ourselves on account of some defect or infirmity. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life ii. i. (1876) 52 The humility which acknowledges present insufficiency.
b. with pl. An act of humility or self-abasement.
1612Davies Why Ireland etc. (1747) 51 With these humilities..they satisfied the young king. 1809–10Coleridge 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.
1623Cockeram, Humilitie, low estate, basenesse. 1757Foote Author i. 8 But how will a Person of his Pride and Pedigree, relish the Humility of this Apartment? 1831Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Ellistoniana, I made a sort of apology for the humility of the fare. c1838De Quincey Shaks. Wks. 1863 XV. 37 His course lay..through the humilities of absolute poverty.
3. A local name of several N. American birds of the family Scolopacidæ.
1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. i. viii. (1865) 34 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. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Humility, otherwise called Simplicity, a sort of Bird in New England. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 256 The Humility is so called because it speaks the word humility, and seldom mounts high in the air. |