humilitude
English
Noun
humilitude (countable and uncountable, plural humilitudes)
- (rare, obsolete) Humility.[1]
- c. 1586, Sir Henry Sydney, "A Letter from Sir Henry Sydney to his Son Sir Philip Sydney" (reprinted in The Orthodox Churchman's Magazine, 1805, vol. 9, p. 361):
- [S]hew much humility, and some familiarity. . . . for high humilitudes take such deep root in the minds of the multitude (who are more easily won by unprofitable courtesies, than curious benefits) that I advise thee not to affect nor neglect popularities.
- 1702, Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana (1855 Silas Andrus edition), p. 127:
- [W]hereto with a sagacious humilitude he consented.
- c. 1586, Sir Henry Sydney, "A Letter from Sir Henry Sydney to his Son Sir Philip Sydney" (reprinted in The Orthodox Churchman's Magazine, 1805, vol. 9, p. 361):
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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