Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng salitang "mapagpakumbaba" ay ang pagkakaroon ng katamtaman o mababang pagtingin sa sariling kahalagahan, ang pagpapakita ng kawalan ng pagmamataas o pagmamataas, pagiging hindi mapagpanggap o hindi pakitang-tao, at pagiging magalang o masunurin.
1. You, who in thy infinite wisdom created the order of chivalry, and who planted goodness within my heart, hereby charge thy humble servant before thee to never strike anyone unjustly, but to use this sword only to protect.
2. Lance glanced down at the floor, hoping to appear humble, while his mind raced for a solution.
3. A humble device, for sure, but it had helped him to kick the habit, and kept him off those ghastly e-cigs for good measure.
4. Humble and obedient in the presence of his boss, Gilligan was a self-interested bastard in the presence of everyone else.
5. He never fancied a quarrel with decent men from humble backgrounds like his own.
6. This knowledge, and some of another kind, came afterwards in the course of an eventful five years, during which I have dropped the prejudices of my former humble situation in life, and forgotten the bellows-mender in far different occupations.
7. The entire reward thus stood at no less than thirty thousand francs, which will be regarded as an extraordinary sum when we consider the humble condition of the girl, and the great frequency, in large cities, of such atrocities as the one described.
8. But she was humble and obedient, and sat meekly for many weeks in the dark, high turret-chamber where the light dripped upon the pale canvas only from overhead.
9. It is true they are not so low that they have any reason to be ashamed of their condition, but neither are they so high as to remove from my mind the impression that my mishap comes of their humble birth.
10. But besides all this, he reminded him that if he prided himself on being a gentleman and a Christian, he could not do otherwise than keep his plighted word and that in doing so he would obey God and meet the approval of all sensible people, who know and recognised it to be the privilege of beauty, even in one of humble birth, provided virtue accompany it, to be able to raise itself to the level of any rank, without any slur upon him who places it upon an equality with himself and furthermore that when the potent sway of passion asserts itself, so long as there be no mixture of sin in it, he is not to be blamed who gives way to it.