N. humility, humbleness, meekness, lowness, lowliness, lowlihood, abasement, self-abasement, submission, resignation, condescension, affability, modesty, verecundity|, blush, suffusion, confusion, sense of shame, sense of disgrace, humiliation, mortification, let down, set down

V. be humble, deign, vouchsafe, condescend, humble oneself, demean oneself, stoop, stoop to conquer, carry coals, submit, submit with a good grace, yield the palm, lower one's tone, lower one's note, sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down, hide one's face, hide one's diminished head, not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself, feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace, drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs, blush for, blush up to the eves, redden, change color, color up, hang one's head, look foolish, feel small, render humble, humble, humiliate, let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down, snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb, teach one his distance, put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower, throw into the shade, cast into the shade, stare out of countenance, put out of countenance, put to the blush, confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush, send away with a flea in one's ear, get a setdown

Adj. humble, lowly, meek, modest, humble minded, sober- minded, unoffended, submissive, servile, &c. 886, condescending, affable, humbled, bowed down, resigned, abashed, ashamed, dashed, out of countenance, down in the mouth, down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers, humbled in the dust, browbeaten, chapfallen, crestfallen, dumfoundered, flabbergasted, shorn of one's glory

Adv. with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee, on all fours, on one's feet, under correction, with due deference

Phr. i am your obedient servant, i am your very humble servant, my service to you, da locum melioribus, parvum parva decent

N. modesty, humility, diffidence, timidity, retiring disposition, unobtrusiveness, bashfulness, mauvaise honte, blush, blushing, verecundity|, self-knowledge, reserve, constraint, demureness, "blushing honors"

V. be modest, retire, reserve oneself, give way to, draw in one's horns, hide one's face, keep private, keep in the background, keep one's distance, pursue the noiseless tenor of one's way, "do good by stealth and blush to find it fame", hide one's light under a bushel, cast a sheep's eye

Adj. modest, diffident, humble, timid, timorous, bashful, shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish, shamefaced, blushing, overmodest, unpretending, unpretentious, unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful, unaspiring, poor in spirit, out of countenance, reserved, constrained, demure

Adv. humbly, quietly, privately, without ceremony, without beat of drum, sans fa on

Phr. "not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty", "thy modesty's a candle to thy merit"

N. servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation|, genuflection, fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, vicar of bray, sir-pertinax, max sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat*, dead beat*, doughface *, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker*, tagtail, truckler

V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee, fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself, worship, sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass, suck up, pay court to, feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of, go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run with the hounds

Adj. servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching

Adv. hat in hand, cap in hand

N. piety, religion, theism, faith, religiousness, holiness, saintship, religionism, sanctimony, reverence, humility, veneration, devotion, prostration, grace, unction, edification, sanctity, sanctitude, consecration, spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness, theopathy, beatification, adoption, regeneration, conversion, justification, sanctification, salvation, inspiration, bread of life, body and blood of christ, believer, convert, theist, christian, devotee, pietist, the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect, saint, madonna, notre dame, our lady, the children of god, the children of the kingdom, the children of the light

V. be pious, have faith, believe, receive christ, revere, be converted &c. convert, edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate, enshrine

Adj. pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly- minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic, saintly, saint-like, seraphic, sacred, solemn, believing, faithful, christian, catholic, elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated, inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, not of the earth

Phr. ne vile fano, "pure-eyed faith . . . thou hovering angel girt with golden wings"