unˈhumbled, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1604 Hieron Wks. I. 498 The sawcines of an ignorant and vnhumbled heart. 1657 Baxter Agst. Quakers 8 What an unhumbled people these are. 1671 Milton P.R. iii. 429 Unhumbl'd, unrepentant, unreform'd. 1704 Faction Displ. x, Uncheck'd by Fear, unhumbled by Disgrace. 1808 H. More Cœlebs xxiv. II. 3 A critical spirit..being a symptom of an unhumbled mind. 1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractar. Secess. 65 Or did he come to it in the unhumbled position of a modern Socinian..? 1904 P. Fountain Gt. North-West xxiv. 294 A flag..floating over its unhumbled sons. |
| absol. a 1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 101 The removal of the cross is not a means to humble the unhumbled. a 1838 C. Neat Serm. (1839) 129 The worldly-minded, the unhumbled, the prayerless. |
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unˈhumbledness.
| c 1670 O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1881) II. 326 The unhumbledness and impenitency of most under open scandalls. 1737 J. Willison Afflicted Man's Comp. (1744) 46 It imports much Impenitency and Unhumbledness for sin. |