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not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming
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He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.
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Thy humble nest built on the ground. -Cowley.
Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
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God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6.
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She should be humble who would please. -Prior.
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Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. -Washington.
To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
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Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens plagues have humbled to all strokes.'' -Shak.
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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-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used reflexively.
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Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Pet. Ch 5: v. 6.
hornless.
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humble cattle
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