Humility
Nouns
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humility, humbleness
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meekness, lowness
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lowliness, lowlihood
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abasement, self-abasement
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submission etc. Submission
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resignation. condescension
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affability etc. (courtesy) Courtesy. modesty etc. Modesty
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verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion
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sense of shame, sense of disgrace
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humiliation, mortification
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let down, set down.
Verbs
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be humble etc. adj.
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deign, vouchsafe, condescend
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humble oneself, demean oneself
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stoop, stoop to conquer
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carry coals
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submit etc. Submission
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submit with a good grace etc. (brook) [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability
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yield the palm. lower one's tone, lower one's note
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sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down
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hide one's face, hide one's diminished head
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not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself
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feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace
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drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. blush for, blush up to the eves
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redden, change color
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color up
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hang one's head, look foolish, feel small. render humble
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humble, humiliate
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let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down
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snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb
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teach one his distance
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put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower
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throw into the shade, cast into the shade etc. Disrepute
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stare out of countenance, put out of countenance
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put to the blush
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confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush
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send away with a flea in one's ear. get a setdown.
Adjectives
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humble, lowly, meek
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modest etc. Modesty
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humble minded, sober-minded
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unoffended
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submissive etc. Submission
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servile, c. Servility. condescending
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affable etc. (courteous) Enemy. humbled etc. v.
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bowed down, resigned
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abashed, ashamed, dashed
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out of countenance
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down in the mouth
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down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers
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humbled in the dust, browbeaten
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chapfallen, crestfallen
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dumfoundered. flabbergasted. shorn of one's glory etc. (disrepute) Disrepute.
Adverbs
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with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee
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on all fours, on one's feet. under correction, with due deference.
Phrases
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I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant
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my service to you