humility
/hjuːˈmɪlɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.59 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "You can tell his humility is real by how he treats ordinary people."
- "She had established a character for humility, discretion, noiselessness and religion which Mrs. Piper greatly regretted losing."
- "By the end of the tenth century, Edith's humility had inspired a cult of holy wells in Kent, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire."
Etymology
From Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”). Equivalent to humble + -ity, with /mb/ reduced to /m/ (compare plumbing). Displaced native Old English ēaþmōdnes. Doublet of omertà.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: humilite, umilité, humilitas