Humble vs Abide - What's the difference?
humble | abide |
Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
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To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used reflexively.
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(label) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
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*:Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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*:Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
(label) To endure; to remain; to last.
*1998 , Narrator ((Sam Elliot)), The Big Lebowski (film):
*:"The Dude abides ."
(label) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
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*:Allas sayd she that euer I sawe yow / but he that suffred vpon the crosse for alle mankynde he be vnto yow good conduyte and saufte / and alle the hole felauship / Ryght soo departed Launcelot / & fond his felauship that abode his comyng / and so they mounted on their horses / and rode thorou the strete of Camelot
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*:Bonds and afflictions abide me.
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(label) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
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(label) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
*William Shakespeare, Richard II
*:To abide thy kingly doom.
(label) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
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*:She could not abide Master Shallow.
(label) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
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As verbs the difference between humble and abide
is that humble is to bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate while abide is .As an adjective humble
is near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage or humble can be hornless.humble
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . See homage, and compare chameleon, humiliate.Adjective
(er)- Thy humble nest built on the ground. -Cowley.
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- God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble . Jas. iv. 6.
- She should be humble who would please. -Prior.
- Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. -Washington.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* humble plant * eat humble pieVerb
(en-verb)- Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes. -Shak.
- The genius which humbled six marshals of France. -Macaulay.
- Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Pet. Ch 5: v. 6.
Derived terms
* humbler (agent noun)Synonyms
* abase, lower, depress, humiliate, mortify, disgrace, degradeEtymology 2
Compare hummel.Adjective
(-)- humble cattle