cavalier vs humble

cavalier

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649). 

  • High-spirited. 

  • Not caring enough about something important. 

  • Supercilious. 

noun
  • A gentleman of the class of such officers 

  • Someone with an uncircumcised penis. 

  • A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area. 

  • A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights. 

  • A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a small breed of spaniel of English origin with a silky, smooth coat and commonly a smooth undocked tail. 

  • A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man. 

  • A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign. 

humble

verb
  • To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. 

  • To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of 

adj
  • Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming. 

  • Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest. 

noun
  • An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. 

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