Trends ofhumble Sharehumble ‘cite’ https://www.etymonline.com/word/humble Etymology of humble by etymonline Harper, D. (n.d.). Etymology of humble. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved January 24, 2025, from https://www.etymonline.com/word/humble Harper Douglas, “Etymology of humble,...
The modern sense of "female spouse" began as a specialized sense in Old English; the general sense of "woman" is preserved inmidwife,old wives' tale, etc. Middle English sense of "mistress of a household" survives inhousewife; and the later restricted sense of "tradeswoman of humble rank...
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of supplicatory language, praise galore and obviously a completely misplaced and insincere humility. The pagan will try to convince his deity that he is fully aware that he is just a humble and inert pawn in the grand scheme of things, and if the deity could kindly change that grand ...
The modern form represents a faulty separation 14c.-16c. ofa nadderintoan adder, for which see alsoapron,auger,nickname,orange,humble pie,aitchbone,umpire.Nedderis still a northern English dialect form. Since Middle English the word has been restricted to use as the common name of the viper,...
The Bible tells the story of how humanity came to be in possession of theWord of God, which is the set of immutable laws upon which the universe runs (Colossians 1:15-17), and upon which a perfect society would run too if humanity would ever figure out how to apply them (that societ...
However, in other European languages the descendants of domus had come to signify more than a humble dwelling house, and its new meanings spread to English. The word increasingly encompassed stately mansions and important places of worship. Italian duomo and German dom mean ‘cathedral’, for ...
As always, this orthographic research becomes a window into our past where one word leads to another. In the foreground to the left, reapers mow the crop with scythes. Scythe and its distant ancestor, the Proto Indo European root *sek- to cut, is the shared ancestral source of other ...
aromatic gum resin from a certain type of tree, used anciently as incense and in religious rituals, late 14c., apparently from Old French franc encense, from franc "noble, true" (see frank (adj.)), in this case probably signifying "pure" or "of the highest quality," + encens "incens...
especially to abase in estimation; subject to shame or disgrace; mortify," 1530s, a back-formation from humiliation or else from Late Latin humiliatus, past participle of humiliare "to humble," from humilis "lowly, humble," literally "on the ground," from humus "earth" (from PIE root ...