(n.) The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.
(n.) An act of submission or courtesy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Humility means that you question your performance every time, that you are ready to put a shift in.
(2) Lt General Stephen Speakes applauded Greene for a “sense of self, a sense of humility” and an exemplary work ethic, according to an account of the promotion ceremony published by the Times Union of Albany, New York, which called Greene an Albany native.
(3) In an interview in the Daily Telegraph today, the chancellor, Alistair Darling, said ministers ought to show "humility" for the mistakes that were made in relation to City regulation in the decade leading up to the recession.
(4) It is hard to explain the significance of the man to those who may not have been born at the time or informed of the freedom struggle, or born witness to his dignity, pride, humility and moral authority, but I and so many others revered him as a father and cherished his existence as a living secular saint.
(5) If the bank is wise, it will listen and show both humility and clear evidence of what it plans to change – and those changes, like its fines, should be big.
(6) But although it has been fashionable to describe the radical child psychiatrist as liberal, flexible, non-committed and open, true radicalism in chid psychiatry would be signalled by a return to structure, by careful and circumscribed clinical activity and by a proper measure of humility.
(7) He is convinced that the legends’ sporting training has imbued them with values such as humility, discipline and the tenacity to succeed.
(8) Work, courage, politeness, humility, honesty and self-transcendence were for him the fundamental pillars of his personality,” Michael said.
(9) The Trump team should project an aura of humility,” the newspaper advised in an editorial .
(10) To be a writer is largely a journey into humility, to be defeated by ever greater things, so this isn’t something you come to expect.
(11) He's got a fantastic humility about him, for all that he's achieved."
(12) I realised by working with them that a squad is guided with humility, intelligence and infinite patience.” Del Piero officially hung up his boots after a brief stint in the inaugural Indian Super League with Delhi Dynamos, calling it a day at the end of the 2014 season.
(13) Keeping his dignity despite a very public and protracted public humilation.
(14) He was offended by their lack of humility and once wrote.
(15) We must accept that and approach that with great humility.
(16) His humility, his advice and his generosity both on and off the stage come out in his music and that’s why he was so beloved.
(17) There is a humility in seeing, as Rick did in Casablanca, that the problems of a few “little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world”.
(18) Rudisha’s respect for his talent is a feature of the humility he sees as his defining characteristic.
(19) He doesn't do humility and nor do his organisations.
(20) Yes, of course it is, but a bit of humility amongst politicians never goes amiss.
Kind
Definition:
(superl.) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
(superl.) Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
(superl.) Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
(superl.) Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
(superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
(a.) Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
(a.) Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
(a.) Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
(v. t.) To beget.
Example Sentences:
(1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(2) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(4) Two kinds of silicafiberscopes with outer diameters 0.80 and 0.45 mm were used in the present study.
(5) Among the 295 nonpathogenic strains, 115 were sensitive to all antibiotics whereas the rest were resistant to 1-5 kinds of antibiotics.
(6) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(7) Further, metastatic tumors were capable of being successfully grown in a high percentage of cases, which was comparable to the results obtained for other kinds of tumors.
(8) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(9) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
(10) High score on the hysteria scale of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire was a risk indicator for all kinds of back pain.
(11) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
(12) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(13) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(14) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
(15) The authors have analyzed their observations of 113 patients and concluded that it is necessary to differentially use various kinds of osteosynthesis and bone autoplasty.
(16) This factor was named interleukin-8 (IL-8) since it is produced by various kinds of cells in response to inflammatory stimuli including LPS, IL-1 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and has pleiotropic effects on T lymphocytes and basophils as well as neutrophils.
(17) Both kinds of experiments show that 1, 25-(OH)2D3 has effects on embryonic bone which are typical for high concentrations of parathyroid hormone (PTH).
(18) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(19) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
(20) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?