Crossword clues for humbled
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
Feeling the positive effects of humility. v
(en-past of: humble)
WordNet
adj. subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humiliated, low]
Usage examples of "humbled".
The grave senators confessed with a sigh, that, after having long experienced the stern tyranny of their own countrymen, Rome was at length humbled beneath the effeminate luxury of Oriental despotism.
This fatal blow humbled, for a very little time, the insolence of the legions.
While the Alemanni appeared to be humbled by their recent calamities, the pride of Valentinian was mortified by the unexpected surprisal of Moguntiacum, or Mentz, the principal city of the Upper Germany.
But their pride was humbled, and their progress was checked, by the arms and policy of Vouti, the fifth emperor of the powerful dynasty of the Han.
Hadrian will not trample on a defenceless and contemptible foe, already humbled by disgrace and poverty, and deeply wounded by the exile, the tortures, and the death of his dearest friends.
Rome, and Italy, though humbled by their recent calamities, submitted with a secret murmur to the presumption of the Gallic usurper.
But the pride of the Roman Solomon, before twenty years had elapsed, was humbled by an earthquake, which overthrew the eastern part of the dome.
Romans and strangers, relaxed in their discipline, and humbled by recent disasters.
The authority of a Roman legislator, was succeeded by the pride of an Oriental despot, who beheld, with equal disdain, the slaves whom he had exalted, and the kings whom he had humbled before the footstool of his throne.
Yet the spirit of the nation was humbled, and the most accessible passes of Hungary were fortified with a ditch and rampart.
But how often was the exile, the vagrant, the Imperial beggar, humbled with scorn, insulted with pity, and degraded in his own eyes and those of the nations!
Albans, and the resentment of the English clergy prompted them to rejoice whenever the popes were humbled and oppressed.
Nor could I help feeling then, as I have often felt, that in the whole of that proceeding I was a very humbled instrument.
Treaties and had them signed, gai-jin would have bombarded their way ashore and by now we would be humbled like China.
This afternoon he had humbled himself with Angelique and cajoled and begged and pleaded and menaced until she had given him a brooch in lieu of money.