'Humility' definitions:
Definition of 'humility'
(from WordNet)
noun
A disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride; "not everyone regards humility as a virtue" [syn: humility, humbleness] [ant: conceit, conceitedness, vanity]
noun
A humble feeling; "he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope" [syn: humility, humbleness] [ant: pride, pridefulness]
Definition of 'Humility'
From: GCIDE
- Humility \Hu*mil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Humilities. [OE. humilite, OF. humilit['e], humelit['e], F. humilit['e], fr. L. humiliatis. See Humble.]
- 1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness. [1913 Webster]
- Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. --Acts xx. 19. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An act of submission or courtesy. [1913 Webster]
- With these humilities they satisfied the young king. --Sir J. Davies.
- Syn: Lowliness; humbleness; meekness; modesty; diffidence.
- Usage: Humility, Modesty, Diffidence. Diffidence is a distrust of our powers, combined with a fear lest our failure should be censured, since a dread of failure unconnected with a dread of censure is not usually called diffidence. It may be carried too far, and is not always, like modesty and humility, a virtue. Modesty, without supposing self-distrust, implies an unwillingness to put ourselves forward, and an absence of all over-confidence in our own powers. Humility consists in rating our claims low, in being willing to waive our rights, and take a lower place than might be our due. It does not require of us to underrate ourselves. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'humility'
From: GCIDE
- Upland \Up"land\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage. [1913 Webster]
- Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished. [Obs.W2] " The race of upland giants." --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- Upland moccasin. (Zool.) See Moccasin.
- Upland sandpiper, or Upland plover (Zool.), a large American sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram's tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, {prairie plover}, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander.
- Upland sumach (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus (Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'humility'
From: Easton
- Humility a prominent Christian grace (Rom. 12:3; 15:17, 18; 1 Cor. 3:5-7; 2 Cor. 3:5; Phil. 4:11-13). It is a state of mind well pleasing to God (1 Pet. 3:4); it preserves the soul in tranquillity (Ps. 69:32, 33), and makes us patient under trials (Job 1:22).
- Christ has set us an example of humility (Phil. 2:6-8). We should be led thereto by a remembrance of our sins (Lam. 3:39), and by the thought that it is the way to honour (Prov. 16:18), and that the greatest promises are made to the humble (Ps. 147:6; Isa. 57:15; 66:2; 1 Pet. 5:5). It is a "great paradox in Christianity that it makes humility the avenue to glory."
Synonyms of 'humility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquiescence,
- altruism,
- amenability,
- back seat,
- bashfulness,
- commitment,
- compliance,
- consecration,
- dedication,
- devotion,
- diffidence,
- disinterest,
- disinterestedness,
- dovelikeness,
- gentleness,
- humbleness,
- inferiority,
- juniority,
- lamblikeness,
- lowliness,
- meekness,
- mildness,
- minority,
- modesty,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolent resistance,
- obedience,
- passive resistance,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- peaceableness,
- Quakerism,
- quietism,
- quietness,
- resignation,
- sacrifice,
- second fiddle,
- second string,
- secondariness,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-denial,
- self-devotion,
- self-effacement,
- self-forgetfulness,
- self-immolation,
- self-neglect,
- self-neglectfulness,
- self-renouncement,
- self-sacrifice,
- self-subjection,
- selflessness,
- servility,
- shyness,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- subordinacy,
- subordination,
- subservience,
- tameness,
- third string,
- timidity,
- timorousness,
- unacquisitiveness,
- unambitiousness,
- unassumingness,
- unboastfulness,
- uncomplainingness,
- unobtrusiveness,
- unpossessiveness,
- unpresumptuousness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unselfishness