Definitions
Etymologies
- humble + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That's not to say you should be all important and stuffy, just wear the title humbly and impart your information in a straight forward, easy to read manner.”
“The learned prefatory dis - course of Dean Hickes * gives him a title humbly to beg your Lordship's acceptance of the whole p» - fbrmance +• The catalogue of the MSS. which llr.”
“As a blogger, you are “real,” genuine, and comfortable in humbly sharing yourself with your readers … in service of us all riding this journey of life together.”
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“For myself and other young leaders who have become involved with Lausanne I can say that we are seeking to learn humbly from the previous generations.”
“He saw one of the monks grin at the word humbly, and realized it might have been a small error: they all knew that whatever other qualities he had he was not humble.”
“I have other reasons which I will not detail now, as the post goes out so early: I will only beg you not to treat me with so much ceremony, nor ever use the word humbly to me, who am in no ways entitled to such respect.”
“He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission.”
“We're saved for some good purpose, sir, and it's only fit we should say a word humbly to our blessed Father in heaven. ”
“Hence, we must proceed carefully, ready to reverse course, willing to experiment; in short, humbly.”
“Accordingly the great industrialist, able as was no other man in this particular to serve his country's need, called humbly at the Treasury for permission to ask the public for capital.”
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Interesting words
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Adverbia
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Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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The Karamazov Bros blab
Dostoevsky's alternatives for 'said' and spruce-ilious adverbs
from the Pevear/Volokhonsky translationdrawl, babble, ask, added, remark, inform, exclaim, call, cry, inquire, shout, drone and 56 more...
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