humble-heartedness
See also: humbleheartedness
English
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editFrom humble-hearted + -ness.
Noun
edithumble-heartedness (uncountable)
- 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.