Humility

humility
    n 1: a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride; "not
         everyone regards humility as a virtue" [syn: {humility},
         {humbleness}] [ant: {conceit}, {conceitedness}, {vanity}]
    2: a humble feeling; "he was filled with humility at the sight
       of the Pope" [syn: {humility}, {humbleness}] [ant: {pride},
       {pridefulness}]
    

Humility \Hu*mil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Humilities}. [OE. humilite, OF.
   humilit['e], humelit['e], F. humilit['e], fr. L. humiliatis.
   See {Humble}.]
   1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride
      and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of
      one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through
      imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.
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            Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. --Acts
                                                  xx. 19.
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   2. An act of submission or courtesy.
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            With these humilities they satisfied the young king.
                                                  --Sir J.
                                                  Davies.

   Syn: Lowliness; humbleness; meekness; modesty; diffidence.

   Usage: {Humility}, {Modesty}, {Diffidence}. Diffidence is a
          distrust of our powers, combined with a fear lest our
          failure should be censured, since a dread of failure
          unconnected with a dread of censure is not usually
          called diffidence. It may be carried too far, and is
          not always, like modesty and humility, a virtue.
          Modesty, without supposing self-distrust, implies an
          unwillingness to put ourselves forward, and an absence
          of all over-confidence in our own powers. Humility
          consists in rating our claims low, in being willing to
          waive our rights, and take a lower place than might be
          our due. It does not require of us to underrate
          ourselves.
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Upland \Up"land\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in
      situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
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            Sometimes, with secure delight
            The upland hamlets will invite.       --Milton.
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   2. Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the
      neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished. [Obs.W2]
      " The race of upland giants." --Chapman.
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   {Upland moccasin}. (Zool.) See {Moccasin}.

   {Upland sandpiper}, or {Upland plover} (Zool.), a large
      American sandpiper ({Bartramia longicauda}) much valued as
      a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields
      and uplands. Called also {Bartramian sandpiper},
      {Bartram's tattler}, {field plover}, {grass plover},
      {highland plover}, {hillbird}, {humility}, {prairie
      plover}, {prairie pigeon}, {prairie snipe}, {papabote},
      {quaily}, and {uplander}.

   {Upland sumach} (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus
      Rhus ({Rhus glabra}), used in tanning and dyeing.
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Humility
a prominent Christian grace (Rom. 12:3; 15:17, 18; 1 Cor. 3:5-7;
2 Cor. 3:5; Phil. 4:11-13). It is a state of mind well pleasing
to God (1 Pet. 3:4); it preserves the soul in tranquillity (Ps.
69:32, 33), and makes us patient under trials (Job 1:22).

  Christ has set us an example of humility (Phil. 2:6-8). We
should be led thereto by a remembrance of our sins (Lam. 3:39),
and by the thought that it is the way to honour (Prov. 16:18),
and that the greatest promises are made to the humble (Ps.
147:6; Isa. 57:15; 66:2; 1 Pet. 5:5). It is a "great paradox in
Christianity that it makes humility the avenue to glory."
    

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "humility":
      Quakerism, acquiescence, altruism, amenability, back seat,
      bashfulness, commitment, compliance, consecration, dedication,
      devotion, diffidence, disinterest, disinterestedness, dovelikeness,
      gentleness, humbleness, inferiority, juniority, lamblikeness,
      lowliness, meekness, mildness, minority, modesty, nonresistance,
      nonviolent resistance, obedience, passive resistance, passiveness,
      passivity, peaceableness, quietism, quietness, resignation,
      sacrifice, second fiddle, second string, secondariness,
      self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion,
      self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect,
      self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice,
      self-subjection, selflessness, servility, shyness, subjection,
      submission, submissiveness, subordinacy, subordination,
      subservience, tameness, third string, timidity, timorousness,
      unacquisitiveness, unambitiousness, unassumingness, unboastfulness,
      uncomplainingness, unobtrusiveness, unpossessiveness,
      unpresumptuousness, unpretentiousness, unselfishness