Humbleness vs Cordialness - What's the difference?
humbleness | cordialness |
Humility; the property of being humble.
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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2
As nouns the difference between humbleness and cordialness
is that humbleness is humility; the property of being humble while cordialness is the state or quality of being cordial.humbleness
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}