#879. Humility. -- N. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood[obs]; abasement, self-abasement; submission &c. 725; resignation.
condescension; affability &c. (courtesy) 894.
modesty &c. 881; verecundity|, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.
V. be humble &c. adj.; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit &c. 725; submit with a good grace &c. (brook) 826; yield the palm.
lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.
blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small.
render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade &c. 874; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame[obs], mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.
get a setdown[obs].
Adj. humble, lowly, meek;, modest &c. 881; humble minded, sober- minded; unoffended[obs]; submissive &c. 725; servile, &c. 886.
condescending; affable &c. (courteous) 891.
humbled &c. v.; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen[obs], crestfallen; dumfoundered[obs]. flabbergasted.
shorn of one's glory &c. (disrepute) 874.
Adv. with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet.
under correction, with due deference.
Phr. I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Lat][Terence]; parvum parva decent [Lat][Horace].