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Definition of Humblingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humblingly
Literary usage of Humblingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Society in America by Harriet Martineau (1837)
"Those who shrink from it become perhaps the weakest women I have anywhere seen:
selfishly timid, humblingly dependent, languid in body, and with minds of no ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"And thus, accordant with our state corrupt, From truth to truth the educated mind
Through shades of awe is humblingly advanced ; But noble ignorance, ..."
3. Friends Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1868)
"... sweetly and encouragingly, and yet humblingly to one, who feels, indeed, the
least and hindermost of the flock, if indeed of that desirable number; ..."
4. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1849)
"That evening and the next morning I was at Thomas Wilson's, where heavenly life
and goodness very humblingly and sweetly overspread my soul with many ..."
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