humble-heartedness
nounEtymology From humble-hearted + -ness.
1
Humility; meekness.
- Whereupon, willing to use that occasion, he kneeled down, and, with humble-heartedness and hearty earnestness printed in his graces.1983, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Kimbrough, Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry, →ISBN, page 384:
- The thought still stays with me of the humble-heartedness in the innermost, that I seemed to see in that skilled artificer of song.1983, Norman Page, Tennyson: interviews and recollections, →ISBN, page 65: