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Humblest

Humble \Hum"ble\, a. [Compar. Humbler; superl. Humblest.] [F., fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.]

  1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

    THy humble nest built on the ground.
    --Cowley.

  2. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

    God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
    --Jas. iv. 6.

    She should be humble who would please.
    --Prior.

    Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.
    --Washington.

    Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa ( Mimosa sensitiva).

    To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles.
    --Halliwell.
    --Thackeray.

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humblest

a. (en-superlative of: humble); ''most humble.''

Usage examples of "humblest".

She said that the spell by which the face of an absent person is thrown upon a mirror was within the reach of the humblest and most contemptible magicians, but that the practice of such-like arts was unholy as well as vulgar.

I think that in England we are scarcely sufficiently conscious of the great debt we owe to the wise and watchful press which presides over the formation of our opinions, and which brings about this splendid result, namely, that in matters of belief the humblest of us are lifted up to the level of the most sagacious, so that really a simple cornet in the Blues is no more likely to entertain a foolish belief about ghosts or witchcraft, or any other supernatural topic, than the Lord High Chancellor or the Leader of the House of Commons.

And now I must tell you how it came to happen, as it did continually, that people thought it worth while to claim the assistance of a mere traveller, who was totally devoid of all just pretensions to authority or influence of even the humblest description, and especially I must explain to you how it was that the power thus attributed did really belong to me, or rather to my dragoman.

Moreover, they saw that the person, the property, and even the dignity of the humblest European was guarded with the most careful solicitude.

The broad cold marble floor, the simple couch, the air freshly waving through a shady chamber, a verse of the Koran emblazoned on the wall, the sight and the sound of falling water, the cold fragrant smoke of the NARGHILE, and a small collection of wives and children in the inner apartments - these, the utmost enjoyments of the grandee, are yet such as to be appreciable by the humblest Mussulman in the empire.

Although I never sat down to open a school of instruction, a man should not despise the humblest teaching, or he may be deficient in many things he should have a knowledge of.

Judges, from the highest to the humblest, numbering, as they do, at least 5,000 personages, including Judges of the High Courts, commissioners, recorders, police magistrates, and justices of the peace.

In the midst of darkness, the humblest rush-light acquires brilliancy.

Besides, even the humblest agent of police would be expected to possess a degree of acuteness for which no one gave M.

It seemed to him that by setting before our eyes the spectacle of so many woes, universally distributed, and doubtless necessary, woes which do not spare even the humblest of creatures, the Sovereign Intelligence intends to exhort us to examine ourselves truly and to dispose us to greater love and pity and resignation.

In this drama of a myriad scenes, in which the little actors in their rustic stage play each in his turn their parts at the mercy of occasion and the hazard of encounter, the humblest creatures are personages of importance.

I stipulate that you perform the humblest task as readily as any other.

The truth that he, in the humblest possible way, could engage in the noble work for which he revered Mrs.

It is a lesson as hard to learn for the somewhat-well-to-do as it is for the humblest stevedore, or the most straight-laced schoolmarm.

Our ancestors, during nearly two centuries of poverty which followed the first settlement, turned their hands to the humblest ways of getting a livelihood, became shoemakers, or blacksmiths or tailors, or did the hardest and most menial and rudest work of the farm, shoveled gravel or chopped wood, without any of the effect on their character which would be likely to be felt from the permanent pursuit of such an occupation in England or Germany.