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- noun Plural form of
humbling .
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Examples
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It took God many years and quite a number of strippings and humblings before I was willing to say
A Dangerous Prayer Heidi Hess Saxton 2008
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It took God many years and quite a number of strippings and humblings before I was willing to say
Archive 2008-04-01 Heidi Hess Saxton 2008
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The humbling of U.S. power in Iraq and the rejection of U.S. pretensions to virtue around the world, he feared, was a harbinger of humblings to come.
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The humbling of U.S. power in Iraq and the rejection of U.S. pretensions to virtue around the world, he feared, was a harbinger of humblings to come.
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We must accept humiliations and mortifications, the humblings of perpetual failure and shortcoming, the friction and fret of infirmity and pain; and when we have come to an end of ourselves, we shall begin to know Christ in a new and deeper fashion.
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It may be long in coming, -- Heaven only knows through what trials and humblings we may have to pass before the full strength of the nation is duly arrayed and led to victory.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It may be long in coming, -- Heaven only knows through what trials and humblings we may have to pass before the full strength of the nation is duly arrayed and led to victory.
Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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We've seen the Patriots bounce back from humblings before, of course, but this clearly wasn't the Week 3 warm-up for the regular season opener at Miami that anyone in Foxboro was looking for.
CNN.com 2011
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We've seen the Patriots bounce back from humblings before, of course, but this clearly wasn't the Week 3 warm-up for the regular season opener at Miami that anyone in Foxboro was looking for.
SI.com 2011
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We've seen the Patriots bounce back from humblings before, of course, but this clearly wasn't the Week 3 warm-up for the regular season opener at Miami that anyone in Foxboro was looking for.
SI.com 2011
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