82 Verbs to Use for the Word humility

" "Does love, then, teach humility; successful love too?

" "I rejoice to hear this," returned Mrs. Bloomfield, glancing her eyes, unconsciously to herself, however, towards Sir George Templemore, "and, Mr. Powis, you, who I believe are a European, will learn humility in the avowal.

I do not mean the cringing man, the flattering man, the man who apes humility for his own ends, because he wants to climb high, by pretending to be lowly.

They affected great humility, with which spiritual pride was mingled,not the arrogant pride of the dialectician, but the self-satisfied pride of the devotee.

That she should have asked her brother, as she here mentions, to leave her his advice in writing, is a practical proof that her expression of an earnest desire to do her duty was not a mere form of words; while the resolution which she avows never to forget his admonitions shows a genuine humility and candor, a sincere desire to be told of and to amend her faults, which one is hardly prepared to meet with in a queen of one-and-twenty.

They stand admittedly in the service of man, and this at least is admirable in the Church of England of my heartI mean her humility.

Their usual compositions were the Madonna enthroned with the infant Jesus in her arms, surrounded by holy personages or angels, with the portraits of those who ordered the paintings, in general of diminutive size to express humility, and kneeling in adoration with clasped hands and upraised eyes.

To all this, add those cruel moments when passion, less lively, leaves us to choose between falling back upon ourselves and feeling all the humility of our position, and those moments where the heart, born for more solid pleasures, leaves us with our own idols and finds its punishment in its own disgust and inconstancy.

"If spiritual pride have not entirely vanquished humility.

"Do not the eyes discover humility, pride; cruelty, compassion; reflection, dissipation; kindness, resentment?"Sheridan's Elocution, p. 159.

And especially (in this age of egoistic idealism) there is about one who defends humility something inexpressibly rakish.

I know you will prefer humility to pride.

It is not so much that they lack sincerity, virtue, or kindness, but they do lack humility; they have none, however much they may profess it.

Some object to this form of words from a mistaken sense of pride; but it is merely a form, and, rightly apprehended, evinces a "proud humility," which implies more condescension than a less formal phrase.

Nor though we be of the Old Faith let us be too proud to salute their humility.

It may be that seeing in you this humility he may yet restore all."

If you are familiar with them, they lose their humility; if you maintain reserve to them, they are discontented.

I think I never heard of a more beautiful instance of persons learning to imitate the humility of Christ, than is told of some Moravian Missionaries.

As the tide of these numerous negotiations changed, Ivan assumed the humility or the pride, the generosity or the severity, adapted to the immediate purpose; and, working upon the characters of the individuals as well as their interests, he succeeded in gaining a great moral lever before he unsheathed a sword.

Dogma exalted the humility of all before God; but when you came to examples, flocks were always spoken of, and shepherds to direct them.

A college is a place whose chief power is to inculcate humility by the means of true learning; to establish intellectual honor and integrity by searching out the ways of God in nature, science, and philosophy, and in letters and in art.

Moreover, all doubts of success (and they are seldom, if ever, entirely wanting) must either produce or exercise humility; and the endeavour to study another's interests and inclinations, and prefer them to one's own, may promote a habit of general benevolence which may outlast the present occasion.

I have experienced humility in this hall myself.

There may be more ways than one of explaining this relative humility: there is Hegel's way and there is Mr. Tylor's way.

Seeing who it was through his little grating, Simon quickly opens the door, and with fawning humility entreats her to step into his poor room, and there he stands, cringing and mopping his eyes, in dreadful apprehension, as having doubtless gathered from some about the house how matters stood betwixt Moll and Mr. Godwin.

82 Verbs to Use for the Word  humility