lowlihood†; abasement, self-abasement; submission &c 725; resignation.
condescension; affability &c (courtesy) 894.
modesty &c 881; verecundity†, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of
shame, sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set
down.
V. be humble &c adj.; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself,
demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit &c 725;
submit with a good grace &c (brook) 826; yield the palm.
lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's
horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not
dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say
for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be
conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.
blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up;
hang one's head, look foolish, feel small.
render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down,
tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike
dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a
peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade &c 874; stare out
of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse,
ashame†, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.
get a setdown†.
Adj. humble, lowly, meek; modest &c 881; humble minded, sober-minded;
unoffended†; submissive &c 725; servile, &c 886.
condescending; affable &c (courteous) 891.
humbled &c v.; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out
of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's
marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten;
chapfallen†, crestfallen; dumfoundered†.
flabbergasted.
shorn of one's glory &c (disrepute) 874.
Adv. with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all
fours, on one's feet.
under correction, with due deference.
Phr. I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my
service to you; da locum melioribus [Lat.] [Terence]; parvum parva
decent [Lat.] [Horace].