English

Alternative forms

• humbleheartedness

Noun

humble-heartedness ‎(uncountable)

1. Humility; meekness.
   • 1983, Sir Philip Sidney & ‎Robert Kimbrough, Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry, ISBN 0299091341, page 384:

     Whereupon, willing to use that occasion, he kneeled down, and, with humble-heartedness and hearty earnestness printed in his graces.

   • 1983, Norman Page, Tennyson: interviews and recollections, ISBN 0333287401, page 65:

     The thought still stays with me of the humble-heartedness in the innermost, that I seemed to see in that skilled artificer of song.