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humbled
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Humbled
(gcide) | Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Humbling.]
1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or
exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
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Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's
plagues
Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak.
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The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
--Macaulay.
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2. 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.
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Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6.
Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace;
degrade.
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humbled
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adj 1: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought
low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken,
crushed, humbled, humiliated, low] |
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