Humble /(hŭm"b'l; 277)/

Hum·ble

Humble

Near the ground; not high or lofty.
Thy humble nest built on the ground.
— Cowley.
Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; modest; as, a humble cottage. Used to describe objects.
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; weak; modest. Used to describe people.
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: 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 humiliation; -- 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.

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling

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.
— Macaulay.
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.