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humility

n.

meekness, timidity, self-abasement, self-abnegation, submissiveness, servility, obsequiousness, mortification, reserve, lowliness, demureness, unobtrusiveness, subservience, subjection, humbleness, submission, abasement, diffidence, self-effacement, fawning, obedience, passiveness, nonresistance, resignation, bashfulness, shyness, timorousness, inferiority complex; see also docility, modesty 1.

Antonyms pride*, vainglory, conceit.

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Another word for humility

noun

Lack of vanity or self-importance:

humbleness, lowliness, meekness, modesty. See attitude, big, self-love

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It requires great humility to overcome hubris.
All he wanted was to savor the sweet victory, but his modesty and humility kept him from doing so in front of his opponent.
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.
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.

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