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Definition of humble:

(adj) : near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage; thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; weak; modest
"thy humble nest built on the ground. -Cowley."
(v) : to bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate; 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
"here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes. -Shak."
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Definition of humble:

(adj) : near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage; thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; weak; modest
"thy humble nest built on the ground. -Cowley."
(v) : to bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate; 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
"here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes. -Shak."
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