humble-hearted

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English

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Etymology

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From humble +‎ hearted.

Adjective

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humble-hearted (comparative more humble-hearted, superlative most humble-hearted)

  1. Meek; humble; unassuming.
    • 1900, William James, What Makes a Life Significant:
      Old hags many of them were, dried and brown and wrinkled, kerchiefed and short-petticoated, with thick wool stockings on their bony shanks, stumping through the glittering thoroughfares, looking neither to the right nor the left, bent on duty, envying nothing, humble-hearted, remote;
    • 2000, Karen Cushman, Matilda Bone, →ISBN, page 74:
      Or perhaps 'I am overawed by your undistinguished, humble-spirited, humble-minded, humble-hearted, humble-looking humility, which humbly shines . . .'?"
    • 2002, John Quirt, Jackboots in the Heartland, →ISBN, page 59:
      Too slick for what Phil liked to call Andy's "humble-hearted" style. "We'll make a suit-and-tie man out of you yet," the senator had said once, half in jest.