Humility meaning

hyo͝o-mĭl'ĭ-tē
The definition of humility is the quality or act of being humble.

An example of humility is someone being a great cook, but realizing there are even better cooks.

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The state or quality of being humble; absence of vanity or excessive pride.
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The quality or condition of being humble.
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The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.
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Origin of humility

  • Middle English humilite from Old French from Late Latin humilitās from humilis humble humble
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”); see humble.
    From Wiktionary

Humility Sentence Examples

  • It requires great humility to overcome hubris.

  • The church key reminds him that "it is my sin that locks his handes," and the stones of the floor are patience and humility, while the cement that binds them together is love and.

  • 9) to seek righteousness and humility, peradventure (but LXX.

  • Even the peculiarly Christian virtue of humility, which presents so striking a contrast to the Greek " highmindedness," was to some extent anticipated in the Rabbinic teaching.

  • Much truer than the common estimate of the character of the Anabaptists is that given in Sebastian Franck's Chronicle: " They taught nothing but love, faith and the crucifixion of the flesh, manifesting patience and humility under many sufferings, breaking bread with one another in sign of unity and love, helping one another with true helpfulness, lending, borrowing, giving, learning to have all things in common, calling each other ` brother.'

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