humilitude

plural humilitudes

1. countableobsoleterareuncountableHumility.

   "[H]enceforth I shall come into your exalted presence with bare-headed humilitude."

   1915, Credo Fitch Harris, chapter 23, in Sunlight Patch

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   [S]hew much humility, and some familiarity. . . . for high humilitudes take such deep root in the minds of the multitude (who are more easily won by unprofitable courtesies, than curious benefits) that I advise thee not to affect nor neglect popularities.

   c. 1586, Sir Henry Sydney, "A Letter from Sir Henry Sydney to his Son Sir Philip Sydney" (reprinted in The Orthodox Churchman's Magazine, 1805, vol. 9, p. 361)

   [A] pretended Invaſion made upon the Liberties of the People vvas complained of the Deputy-Governour, vvas moſt Irregularly call'd forth unto an Ignominous Hearing before them in a vaſt Aſſembly; vvhereto vvith a Sagacious Humilitude he conſented, although he ſhevv'd them hovv he might have Refuſed it.

   1702, Cotton Mather, “[Book II (Ecclesiasum Clypei. […]).] Chapter IV. Nehemias Americanus. The Life of John Winthrop, Esq; Governour of the Massachuset Colony.”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, § 9, page 13, column 1

   The attending spirits that waited the voice of justice fell prostrate down, but Robin, as by superior force impelled, raised his awe-inspired eyes in deep humilitude to the centre of this bright concave.

   1817, Alicia M'Gennis, Strathbogie; or, The Recluse of Glenmorris, page 180