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. Han. 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. It may be said to the worldly-minded, the unhumbled, the prayerless, the self-righteous, and the disobedient, ‘THOU art the man.’
Hence Unhumbledness.
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.
