noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Humility and discipline are important in the martial arts.
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As I listened to him speak, I was filled with a sense of humility .
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Mother Theresa remained a woman of great humility , despite all the attention and praise her work received.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For a decade, Jerusalem continued approaching Washington with a measure of humility , careful not to wear out its welcome.
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He is less practiced in the art of contrived humility than was Nixon.
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It is important to judge last week's results with a little intellectual humility .
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Magnificence is admirable if not always comprehensible, humility is very unattractive to the modern Western mind.
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Put you in that - that kiosk - and expect your parishioners to admire your humility ?
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The humility and the arrogance in the prose are almost indistinguishable, frolicking like puppies at play.
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Theological references to them are scant, though St Bernard took the blackness as a symbol of humility .