Crossword clues for humbling
humbling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling.]
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To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes.
--Shak.The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
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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.
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.
Wiktionary
Of higher rank, status, quality, strength, etc.; inducing a feeling of inferiority. n. An event which causes humbleness; a set-down. v
(present participle of humble English)
WordNet
adj. causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humiliating, mortifying]
Usage examples of "humbling".
Charles will suggest a more narrow and selfish motive of procrastinationthe secret desire of humbling the pride and wasting the provinces of the rebel duke of Aquitain.
Admiral asked, keeping the delight off his face at this further humbling of his adversary.
He had not then merely been the blind dupe of his own passions, but, more humbling still, an instrument in the hands of the very men whom his hatred was sworn to destroy.
It should prove a humbling experience, being forced to share a bed with him, the grasping knight she scorned as a dishonorable pretender to nobility.
She held herself with the regal grace of a queen, despite the humbling ordeal he had forced upon her by making her serve his needs in full view of her people.
If you thought serving as my squire was humbling, you will find your new duties thrice as onerous.
Aislinn sank to her knees before him, humbling herself for this brief moment.
Next year his neighbours, the Malirattas, having signified to the presidency of Bombay, that they were disposed to join in the necessary service of humbling this common enemy, so formidable to the whole Malabar coast, commodore James was detached with some ships of force to attack Angria, in conjunction with those allies.
The responsibility he shared with Keele to get these people to safety was humbling.
Lori Stang would like to embarrass her after her humbling experience at the press conference.
As much of an education as the previous seven years had been my private Parkinsonian tutorial the lessons that came in the wake of that fateful Thanksgiving have been all the more powerful and humbling.
He had no further to retreat except to reveal the one thing which would damn him most: that he had traveled as a servant with the Aoi sorcerer and witnessed her humbling and frightening power.
The Goths, the Cimbrians, the Vandals, and the Huns had each taken their turn hi humbling that mighty metropolis.
God is humbling him, that he may know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
And Q did go through a rather humbling experience the last time he was here.