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  • noun Plural form of humility.

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Examples

  • His companion made a small speech, with gestures for up, for down, for fast, for the bump on Charlie's head, for a matrix of humilities which probably included

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • There are a thousand humilities suffered every day by the Palestinian population.

    Q. and A. With Taghreed El-Khodary in Gaza - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • And that's actually a really big concern because once we start to clear some of this out of here and we get lower humilities as that sun really affects the area and heats up the temperatures, those winds are going to be picking up this afternoon.

    CNN Transcript May 11, 2007 2007

  • We could see winds 30 to 50 miles an hour, at times gusting to 75 miles an hour, in the same areas and relative humilities at about 4 percent to 8 percent.

    CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007 2007

  • Between this sunken pride and the towering humilities of heaven there are, one must suppose, spirits of shapes and sizes.

    Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

  • Conversant with the requirements of humility, king Vasumanas, ever devoted to the welfare of all, having observed the proper humilities and having circumambulated the great sage and bowed unto him duly, enquired of the virtuous

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • The devices to lull their suspicions -- the virtues and renunciations, the humilities and the consecrations!

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Bond's struggle to reach his dignified position in the town had been a severe one, and had only succeeded because of a multitude of self-submissions and abnegations, humilities and contempts, flatteries and sycophancies that would have tired and defeated a less determined soul.

    The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912

  • Between this sunken pride and the towering humilities of heaven there are, one must suppose, spirits of shapes and sizes.

    Orthodoxy 1905

  • Between this sunken pride and the towering humilities of heaven there are, one must suppose, spirits of shapes and sizes.

    Orthodoxy 1905

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