humble-heartedness en · NOUN
Etymology
From humble-hearted + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Humility; meekness.
The thought still stays with me of the humble-heartedness in the innermost, that I seemed to see in that skilled artificer of song.
1983, Norman Page, Tennyson: interviews and recollections, →ISBN, page 65:Whereupon, willing to use that occasion, he kneeled down, and, with humble-heartedness and hearty earnestness printed in his graces.
1983, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Kimbrough, Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry, →ISBN, page 384:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| humbleheartedness | alternative | lexicographic |