Humble vs. Humiliation

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Example: ‘He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.’;

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive.

(transitive) lang=en.

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

Example: ‘THy humble nest built on the ground.’;

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; waek; modest.

Example: ‘God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.’; ‘She should be humble who would please.’; ‘Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.’;

Hornless. See Hummel.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

Example: ‘Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plaguesHave humbled to all strokes.’; ‘The genius which humbled six marshals of France.’;

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.

Example: ‘Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you.’;

cause to be unpretentious;

Example: ‘This experience will humble him’;

cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

Example: ‘He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss’;

low or inferior in station or quality;

Example: ‘a humble cottage’; ‘a lowly parish priest’; ‘a modest man of the people’; ‘small beginnings’;

marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;

Example: ‘a humble apology’; ‘essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions’;

used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

Example: ‘baseborn wretches with dirty faces’; ‘of humble (or lowly) birth’;

The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.

The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.

The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission.

Example: ‘The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood.’;

state of disgrace or loss of self-respect

strong feelings of embarrassment

an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect;

Example: ‘he had to undergo one humiliation after another’;

depriving one of self-esteem

Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. It is an emotion felt by a person whose social status, either by force or willingly, has just decreased.