Meaning of HUMILITY
| Pronunciation: | | hyoo'militee
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- [n] a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride; "not everyone regards humility as a virtue"
- [n] a humble feeling; "he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope"
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| | Synonyms: | | humbleness, humbleness |
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| | Antonyms: | | pride, pride, pridefulness | | |
| | See Also: | | feeling, meekness, meekness, self-depreciation, submission, trait | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | |  Humility
HUMILITY puts an entirely new light on this little-understood Christian grace. Mr. Murray shows that humble dependence on God is the basis of all genuine blessing . more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. --Acts
xx. 19.
2. An act of submission or courtesy.
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.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | 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." |
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| Thesaurus Terms |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, selflessness, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, servility, shyness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, subordinacy, subordination, subservience, tameness, third string, timidity, timorousness, unacquisitiveness, unambitiousness, unassumingness, unboastfulness, uncomplainingness, unobtrusiveness, unpossessiveness, unpresumptuousness, unpretentiousness, unselfishness |
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