meaning of humble2

1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
2.
Thinking lowly of ones self; claiming little for ones self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking ones self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.
3.
Hornless. See Hummel.
4.
To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
5.
To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
6.
cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the ">boss"


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