(n.) One who, or that which, humbles some one.

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• So with the humbler houses in the little street, the inner firelight shining on the panes as the outer twilight darkened. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• In the other corner was a bed of much humbler pretensions, and evidently designed for _use_. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, he answered, smiling, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and humbler women, is a very good sport for a philosophical frequenter of Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.

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