Noun: humble
| Singular | humble |
| Plural | humbles |
Sample Sentences
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But he giueth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proude, but giueth grace vnto the humble. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, James 4:6:]
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c. 590 AD: Liber Regulae Pastoralis by Pope Gregory I
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"The humble are to be admonished not to be more submissive than is right".
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You're on a corner in my district, it ain't gonna be about no humble, it ain't gonna be about no loitering charge, nothing like that. There gonna be some biblical shit happening to you on the way to that motherfucking jail wagon. [2004 October 17, Ed Burns, “Straight and True”, in The Wire, season 3, episode 5 (television production), spoken by Howard "Bunny" Colvin (Robert Wisdom), via HBO:]
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Years ago, guys on Baltimore's streets would have, by definition, called an arrest for loitering a "humble." [2005 April 23, Gregory Kane, “'Jive humble' arrests help fill Central Booking's cell”, in Baltimore Sun:]
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A humble is a cheap, inconsequential arrest that nonetheless gives the guy a night or two in jail before he sees a court commissioner. You can arrest people on “failure to obey,” it’s a humble. Loitering is a humble. These things were used by police officers going back to the ‘60s in Baltimore. It’s the ultimate recourse for a cop who doesn't like somebody who's looking at him the wrong way. [2015 April 29, “David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish”, in The Marshall Project:]
Nouns inflected like humble
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English humble, from Old French humble, umble, humle, from Latin humilis (“low, slight, hence mean, humble”) (compare Greek χαμηλός (khamēlós, “on the ground, low, trifling”)), from humus (“the earth, ground”), humi (“on the ground”). See homage, and compare chameleon, humiliate. Displaced native Old English ēaþmōd. See: Middle English Nouns '
humble', Latin Nouns '
humilis'.
Verbs referencing "humble"
English Nouns
humblebee.