humble-heartedness

See also: humbleheartedness

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

humble-hearted +‎ -ness

Noun

humble-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. Humility; meekness.
    • 1983, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Kimbrough, Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry, →ISBN, page 384:
      Whereupon, willing to use that occasion, he kneeled down, and, with humble-heartedness and hearty earnestness printed in his graces.
    • 1983, Norman Page, Tennyson: interviews and recollections, →ISBN, page 65:
      The thought still stays with me of the humble-heartedness in the innermost, that I seemed to see in that skilled artificer of song.
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