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How to pronounce humility in Dutch?

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damien album welcome
to them good to have you here
it's wonderful
i mean it feels like autumn but we're
kind of into winter now yeah this is
what you call royal morning blues it is
indeed but i'm surely the leaves should
have gone by now yeah i think uh
leaves on trees in november that's not
good not not a good sign well i mean
i just i just like to see it from the
trees perspective i don't hear what
they've got to say about it
you have a new album coming out yeah
it started out as some sort of project
for an icelandic festival
no no
it started off as
a project for a french festival a french
festival yeah
uh but i chose to
make it in iceland make it nice and
in my house looking out my window
because it was a commission i had i was
able to
bring some really great musicians over
and sit with me and look at look at the
landscape and
kind of somehow find a language to play
to play what we saw which
outside of my window in iceland is
directly outside of it is a a kind of
bit of
heath land and then there's a little
lynx golf course then there's
a black sand beach
then there's a bit of ocean there's
little island and there's a mountain
range and then behind that there's a
glacier and a volcano
it's the ultimate image to
score a record to right well it's an
interesting one yet because you know
this is very dynamic and uh
full of kind of
big kind of
climate related
sort of stuff like i've seen over the
last 20 years how
much the uh the glacier has receded you
can actually see that happening right in
front of your house exactly
what is it what does that change to the
landscape i mean just the snow or just
the ice disappearing or does the whole
lens well
distance you can't see that you can only
see that on a very clear day but you can
see that it's there's less now during
during the
in the winter it feels like it's the
same you know but but in the summer
months you can see it's definitely less
than it used to be
um but that's true of all glaciers
they're all sort of slowly receding
it doesn't snow as much as it used to so
so
when it begins to snow again it feels
optimistic when
it's raining and then the temperature
drops and it turns to snow
um that's what you're describing in this
industry yeah but everything slows down
inside you know if you're talking about
the climate change kind of
conference
this week in glasgow it's yes
it's what we want isn't it we're just
slow down climate change because the
implications of it are so sort of
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so uh profound that's something that's
interesting right you have the climate
which is a much larger and
bigger scale thing than
the weather when you look outside you
get this sense okay there's snow this is
a good sign but yeah it says nothing of
course yeah of course yeah no no well
yeah but
no exactly and
and if it's in the middle of summer
it's probably
yet another
sort of alarm bell yeah
there seems to be a sense of isolation
in this record which is probably at
first inspired by the the setting you
were in this landscape etc
it seems to be an appropriate
theme for the kind of era that we
all get into i i think i was making a
record that when i started it i mean
yeah exactly the environment i was in
alluded to those kind of that that kind
of
condition you know that
that perspective you know the ideas i'd
been playing around pre-pandemic with
the project
fitted beautifully into the state yeah
of mine that i was in yeah so
it's just that
it's just
it's a fluke that the two come together
but you know it's kind of it happens a
lot i see a lot of records i think this
is a typical pandemic record this must
have been written during isolation and
then you ask a musician and he said no
no all the songs were written before
well that's a wonderful thing but but
that's what
i think all
good artists are are doing they're
picking up on
the future before it happens because
you know we we we have these
this weird idea that that everything is
kind of sort of
is like now but it's not we're still
carrying the residue
uh
of the past and
connected to the future the the future
already exists
it's all everything's already done so
how does that work can you everything's
already happening the future's coming on
right yeah that's the thing that's the
same things already i think it has
happened so you have to move into the
future so how do you get that sense of
what's gonna happen or i mean it was
some when i was a kid it was
i used to have this these flashes of
this revelation and i could never hold
hold on to what it was and then as i got
older i kind of
i was able to understand it and the the
revelation was that
the future is the past and the past is
the future so how do you
look back on writing those songs and
seeing this all happen and thinking hey
i was writing about the future again how
does that
situation reveal itself to you
well i mean i've been writing songs
which
you know i mean demon days is pretty
kind of
sort of prescient really if you look at
this apocalyptic i suppose if you write
about the apocalypse you know at some
point you're going to get it right
aren't you
that's true
that's true so what did you miss most
the traveling all the touring
i didn't really think about it in those
terms i accepted what it was and kind of
lived in the moment both of them are
really important to you right
sure you are pouring
inspiration from from from the world
yes i've i've i do i i love putting
myself in in
new frames
new perspectives
so i i
adore that so how did you do that now
now that you were like all of us more
bound to well i think i'd sort of you
know
travelled in my head really and i swam
as far as i could out to sea
without
not in iceland
no endeavor yeah
right you know
that's as far as i could go so i swam to
my limit and in a sense that was the
same as traveling you know
there's this image of traveling that
pops up in at least two songs on the
record which is a cruise ship yes yes
that's very important part of the record
yeah it's an empty cruise ship
like a ghost yes it's almost like the
empty spaceship that we've seen before
in your some of your videos exactly
where did this image of this ghost ship
come from
it's the kind of recurring dream i
i have of is it a nightmare or is it
actually some sort of
beautiful thing
i think the music that that's played in
for no one is beautiful
you know what i mean like you did on on
glastonbury last year yeah i really i
mean you're an empty field of people for
me that was perfect you know
i really enjoy it as my favorite
glastonbury
why because i mean
it's all about the sea of people right
no it's not all about that it's i mean
this was more about than
the the land of glastonbury and then the
the spirits of glastonbury you know
it was wonderful playing in the middle
of nowhere in the countryside i love
that what is the spirit of glastonbury
with no people
well it's a very ancient spirit actually
you know it goes back i mean
it goes back thousands of years it's one
of those
those places which has a
a uh
a very
strong you know spiritual signature like
there is something in yes in the ground
actually there is exactly
so back to the cruise ship have you ever
been on one on on one of these
floating cities
but i always always fascinated by them i
always take photographs
of them
what fascinates you but there was one
during lockdown
out in the bay where
where where i live and it was that it
was there for at least a month it was it
was a ghost chip it was a ghost ship
news exactly and
every night they switched the lights on
so you know i could sit on
empty beach looking out at this it was a
long way out it wasn't i couldn't swim
to it you have these these images of the
venetian
shores where this giant ship doesn't
stop it's it's that's that's a great
image right yeah great
force of yeah certain marks humanity on
some marks this beautiful renaissance
building and then this thing behind it
that's like twice as high you know yeah
which
she's
has no soul so why did you put this ship
at the south american coast
uh uh because um
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i needed to get there
and that was the best way to get there
you know what i mean and uh
the tower of montevideo is it an actual
ship the tower of montevideo no tower
monster joe is a tower oh a tower in the
city it's it's it was built by a
italian architect in the 1930s so it's
got that kind of sort of
modernist
fascist kind of
atmosphere about it but it
originally had a lighthouse on the top
of it
and it had a cinema
it's an apartment block it wasn't a
hotel so it's an apartment block that
had its own cinema his own lighthouse
and his own uh ballroom and restaurants
which is 1930s that's quite a
vision of the future
you know so what's your connection to
that specific building
um
well
the two times i've been to uruguay i've
just been obsessed with it you know i
haven't actually been in it yet i've
looked into it from
from quite a high elevation and just
i've drawn it i've drawn the whole
building
i've
i've thought about it a lot
so it was a nice place to get on my
ship and
visits
from the ocean yeah
this this this song the music of it it
it it has this south american touch
which is in the in the drum machine that
you use well
these these were the decisions i made i
decided to take my oldest drum machine
which is a 1954
wurlitzer
but it's so it's really really pre
anything pre anything yeah and it's it's
it's got all those kind of sort of latin
jazz
drum patterns on it so
i didn't have much choice you had to
have to do that yeah so
that was one of the prime instruments
you used for this yes i made decisions i
said what am i going to make this record
with okay i'll take that
there's a synthesizer which has a very
distinct sound there's a few
synthesizers but they're but they're
they're early early synthesizers and
because it i was recording in in an old
cold
stone barn
they
they didn't
work properly most of the time so
you know what i mean it's like touch and
go in the morning whether they actually
make a sound so why was this the
instrument that you wanted to use you
just picked them and well i have a guy
i don't know i just felt they were the
closest things i had
to
the atmosphere that i'd kind of
been working with in iceland you know
because in iceland i'd had the orchestra
instruments and i and i'd taken an old
hammond
organ i had and a harmonium and a piano
up there so
it was in that
sonic world so i felt that was right to
me it starts at the start it feels kind
of
cold
after two songs there's royal morning
blue and it blooms up there's suddenly a
lot of warmth and hope and
new energy flowing into the into the
album which is due to the
drum patterns and also to the saxophone
of course which plays a big role in this
in this record a big big role yeah did
you actually want it to to
bloom after a few
moments did you think about that
well i think that's kind of in in still
holding true to the
you know
we used to start
the workshops before the
morning lights
so because nice and in the winter it
doesn't get light until like 11.
so if we started like half nine it'd be
dark still
so it's that cold dark uncertainty and
then
it blooms up
yeah and that's that's that moment yeah
in the day so to speak it's like a sort
of it's a day isn't it really
it starts off as a record starts off
with a song that pays so much to
the late great tony allen tony allen was
a very important musician in your life
you've worked with him for a year
yeah personally
how what kind of person was he in your
life
uh
well he was he was very much like a
significant teacher
what did he teach you oh my god
he taught me how to uh play with my eyes
closed
which is a big step
why is that a backstab some people don't
know anything else what them playing
with their eyes yeah they're blind
no some people you often see musicians
who don't dare looking up
and you just play with their eyes open
for you it took some
learning to
to play with your eyes closed it's a
different thing playing the piano with
your eyes closed and looking at where
your hex is a big
big old place the piano keyboard so
it's you you your
spatial awareness
takes a while to
be able to do that i think i mean yeah i
mean i used to close my eyes when i felt
awkward on stage as a singer
that was a way of dealing with
actually creating music with your eyes
closed means you it's a very different
thing it's a different different
experience yeah
you're playing like a someone who's
blind really
so you have a different relationship
with
the whole physical
thing of of
creating
there's more jeopardy when your eyes are
closed but
to get over that you have to just
you just have to become very uh
fluid
and and
you know
you can't be self-conscious if you've
got your eyes closed playing a piano how
did you start working with him because
you meet a lot of people you work with a
lot of people how did you know that you
well
i first started with um
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listening to
to fella cootie
and then i listened to his solo records
and then i i sang a song a blur song
called music is my radar which
sang about had a line about tony allen
in it and someone obviously heard that
and he ended up
saying ah
would you like to come and
do a tune with me and then
he was a big collaborator as well he
worked with a lot of people during his
career yes absolutely i mean
yeah maybe he had to um consider the
role that he was
playing as a as a drummer yeah i think
it's a drama that's interesting if you
if you listen to for instance some of
the songs on your uh uh good tibetan
queen records
you hear
it sounds like
he's taking the lead with the rhythm
yeah whereas probably most of the songs
most of songwriters start with melodies
or rhythm
drummers
how does that work he's so profound if
you want to work with tony you have to
kind of go with him you know i mean you
have to follow him
so
that's what he does that's what he is
that's probably what you want to want
from him as well absolutely i mean it's
there's no other there's no nobody
played the drama sites only
what what is it that made him so
distinctive
it's like the lightness of touch
yeah the pulse
the pole i mean you know the pulse could
change if he'd had one too many whiskers
before we went on stage the
pulse could be slightly erratic
but when it was really
in the groove you know i mean the thing
about tony is he like to play for like
two two two hours at least
so
a like on and on yeah an hour-long
concert full of songs that last only
like three minutes sometimes for him was
you know
like a good 20-minute song is that's
that was his kind of sweet sweet spot
you know what i mean
this this line the nearer the fountain
more pure the stream flows it to me
it also means like when you're true are
close to the originators of music the
pioneers of music you get to
drink from their water in a way that's
one of the things you could one of the
ways you could interpret that line yes
you've done that a lot right yeah a lot
of
originators yeah you're absolutely right
yeah
from from
from smith bobby womack yeah
yeah
yeah lou reeds
does it always work for you because
there's also the saying you shouldn't
meet your heroes because it's always it
will disappoint does it does it
that's not the way you think you just
it's not
sometimes you know it's not
because nothing's ever going to be how
you imagine it so
yeah i mean i've you know i suppose
of all the people
that i were i mean i had the
tony tony i've had i had
the longest and deepest relationship
with but i also had a
very kind of
dear time with bobby womack and went on
a world tour with him made
a solo record for him
got to know him very well
it it's sometimes i don't mean this as
disrespect at all but it seems also like
a kind of a collection to you a
collection yeah all the songs that you
created with all these people seemed
like something
like you want to make something with
these people you admire and you
look up to or or think they're
great thinkers or
it it seals them into your life
so to speak yes i mean it
you can also collect records but this is
a more beautiful way of collecting right
well but well you have to work
what i'm saying is it's like it's not
easy to do it
it requires because it's not just like
hey how you doing let's make a you know
for example something like bobby womack
he
he kind of hadn't done anything for 10
years when i called him up he'd been
sitting on his sofa in l.a just
because he didn't know what what else to
do he was out of idea i think he yeah i
mean maybe he was just
he was just a recovering addict
um
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he'd concentrated on enough of things in
his life um
so he had to convince him it was a good
idea to make something come back right
into that mad
world that he'd kind of sort of
i mean when you're recovering
it's a dangerous world as well right
absolutely totally i'll never forget
when we were rehearsing in burbank and
uh a sly stone was um
in
the opposite uh rehearsal studio because
he was rehearsing for coachella
and tony was very i mean i mean bobby
was very anxious that day because
he was one of his old
kind of uh
addiction buddies addiction buddies yeah
so he really didn't want to
hang out with him that day
you know
wow yeah so how did that work out you
you just yeah they just keep kept them
separated yeah well they kept themselves
up well he kept himself separate he just
yeah but i could see i could see he was
like
nervous
i can imagine that
sly he didn't ever enter your studio did
he no
no
i can imagine he's something that's
very
important to you musically as well oh
god yeah i
love the things that the textures of his
songs absolutely production yeah i mean
it's just it's it's i suppose it's kind
of can
it's it's it's a huge challenge when you
when you try and work with someone who
you
adore you know and has been very
influential
to you because it's it's actually
really hard to get something that has
any integrity you know what i mean it
has to be good enough to live up to your
memories of their music their own music
yeah
do you throw a lot of do you throw a lot
of those collaborations away but but in
this in in the sense of it is it a
menagerie or not no because like there's
no door or
cage it's just
you know i come into their lives they
come into my life you know and
it's it's terrifying for them terrifying
for me and
not because
i'm their hero or anything but just sort
of you know when when you've been kind
of vulnerable situation it's a
vulnerable situation the thing that we
started this conversation with
the traveling part is also important in
this aspect of your work um
it's so it seems to me like you actually
want to meet those people
yeah do you often work via email or we
transfer
i did during pandemic you just had to
had to yeah yeah
no sure i mean i prefer to be
in the room with someone
so now you have this
world dominating situation which is a
pandemic you also have this new
situation in britain which is called
brexit which has unrolled in the past
couple of months as well
how bad is it really
i definitely feel we
we're under a cloud
and you're a cloud we're under a cloud
yeah i mean we are
generally under a cloud on
in england you know and scotland down
wales and ireland
just because we're on the edge of a huge
ocean um
so we get all the weather first
um
but no i think yeah i mean i just think
spiritually the country is a bit lost
but i mean i mean you you've written
you've written about this before alone
it actually uh
happened
do you think that people now that it's
unrolling are starting to see what
happens or maybe changing their minds or
uh
just does it me just it's hard it's very
it's very hard for people to admit that
maybe they made the wrong decision
that you know the whole thing about
brexit is really
i never really realized how
emotive it is you know but people's
reasons for voting brexit
were so uh
eclectic you know some people
i know one of what one of my one one of
my parents
old friends her
voted brexit even though she's a signed
member of the communist party she voted
brexit
because in the 70s
her parents had sold their apple farm to
a french company
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bizarre reason yes and that she's
resented that even though she's a
internationalist and a communist
she still kind of voted brexit i just
don't know how anyone could do that
so that's just one example one one one
example of
yeah people you know people were voting
for so many different reasons and you
know the weirdest thing about it was
that they were voting with the people
that probably made them feel like that
in the first place you know i the the
the the right wing and the conservatives
you know
so it's it's very messy it's uh
i mean personally i think it was idiotic
you know
but that's that puts me in a difficult
position in my own country where i think
the majority of the people
acted in an irresponsible belligerent
way you know
it's very hard it's also very hard for
them
to
to
come round to a different way of
thinking because
that they created this mess you know and
it's hard for people sometimes
to admit that they were wrong they were
wrong but clearly they were what does it
mean for you as a traveling musician
well the implications are massive i mean
it's not just it's not so much me it's
the youngest the young next younger
generation
you know who now have to pay for visas
on top of all all the
the the myriad protocols of of
of
of kovid so you've got this dub this dub
double cost
it's very prohibitive for for for young
artists to travel now in europe and so
the whole once the festival scene
hopefully next fingers crossed next year
is
back up running
you're not going to see so many uh uh
british
traveling down the continent no and but
but that's such
you know such an important part i mean i
remember when we started in blur
our first year in 1990 of summer
festivals changed our lives i mean
these things are important you know in
what way did it change your life just
open my mind it's like wow i'm i'm in
france i'm in
i'm in sweden i'm in like
poland i'm in lithuania i'm like
you now have an icelandic passport right
yes what did you have to do to get that
uh huh oh nothing
nothing no so i could go there and get
one no
absolutely not you've been living there
you've been having you had a yes i mean
i've been there for 20 years 20 years
yes i mean there are two ways you can
get a nice underpass or you either
you either learn icelandic
work there and live there all the time
or
you do what i did which is kind of sort
of
get
given it as a kind of
was a gift
is that a rock star privilege
i don't think it's a rock star privilege
i think it's i mean you know it's it's
it's
if you really want the the economics of
it it's i helped contribute to
the tourist
explosion in iceland
20 years ago
and it's
in one way because i was one of the
first people to go to iceland and talk
about it
they acknowledged that as one of them
that's one of the main reasons yeah and
you know
i
i work with icelandic artists i've i
have a house there i've lived
there not as a resident not
as a how much time do you spend there
actually um well i mean actually
uh
before the pandemic i was going there a
lot because i was doing this project i
was going
for a long time i mean you know i i love
iceland uh i didn't i didn't ask to
become a citizen um it was
it was a very very generous
gift that they gave me and i
uh i did not
i don't kind of turn these things down
you know even though
uh i mean when i was
in mali when i was
given a uh
uh
i was given an honorable name and had a
whole
long
process have going there and going to
the this
area 100 miles outside of bamako
where the kamisoko clan live and been
had my new name whispered to me by the
imam in front of 5 000 people you know
that these these things are
they're things i think you you need to
accept with utmost humility
and but also kind of
you know i mean the implications of what
happened in in mali were quite
real for me because
bizarrely
a few months later i got
a letter from the queen saying we want
to
give you
uh
an honor and my family because elizabeth
yeah my fam
my family of very much republicans
in fact my on my father's side they're
all conscientious objectors and really
the last thing i would ever do is kind
of
ally myself with
the royal family but because i had
already accepted this
this honor from molly marley
to me personally as uh as a human being
it seemed terribly hypocritical if i
turned down something to the queen from
the queen
from my own people you know what i mean
so i had to accept it you know with
utmost humility you know and move on
with my life but i don't
walk around like i'm you're not having
it no no no not at all
but it's interesting not at all so in
ice and it's a similar sort of thing
it's i
didn't ask for this but
now that you've offered me it uh i'll
accept it i will accept it i will accept
it and i will take it i would take the
implications of it very seriously and
honor it you know what i mean as much as
i can
all the other people who got it
uh in defense of of of iceland's kind of
uh
citizen
kind of dispersal
program is we're all from syria or from
uh africa or from afghanistan fugitive
people exactly from everyone else
everyone else on the list apart from me
who obviously still stuck out like a
sort of thumb yeah you're a brexit
fugitive brexit food
that's a big thing right for me it's
very important because i see myself as a
as a european i'm i i hate i hate
the idea of us being cut off from europe
i hate it
but this is the reality i mean when it's
a reality but i mean thankfully not for
me no when you think of tony allen for
instance back to him
it was well known back in the day when
he was playing with fella cutie that
they had a big band and it was hard to
get visa for all these musicians
because i mean the reality was
quite a lot of them wanted to stay in
germany or france or wherever they were
oh yeah i mean that that the the i mean
there have been musicians
for what his name was the congolese guy
who
yeah he got in a lot of trouble because
he was you know that he was making a lot
of money out of uh
so-called uh uh
band members yeah who never seemed to go
back you know what i mean yeah but
i mean tony was very much
very much of the mind that
there shouldn't be so much movement and
that they should stay and
you know help the country you know
it's uh it's it's important to live in
nigeria
yeah so actually that's a hard thing i
mean for his career he had to do that at
the same time you can be convinced it's
important
he found
lagos too hectic it was way too
too problematic for him to live there
much prefer yeah
a suburb of paris so now you're actually
in the good line for the airport thanks
to
a very generous icelandic exactly thank
you very much and i still feel european
which is important
so for me
yeah how do you think
this will be working in the long term
this this brexit do you think i could
say situations
we will come back with our tail between
our legs and say can we please come back
you think so i hope so i just think it
just doesn't make any sense the
uh
being so sort of
uh
aggie with your own neighbors it's like
you know france holland
belgium are our
very real neighbors
they are and we really should be getting
on better with our neighbours it's a
sort of it's it's it's a
it's impolite to be so belligerent and
secondly it's impractical
and and the that is caused in
ireland is just unforgivable
you know after what islands been through
you know what i mean
what kind of do you mean then well
the border the border between the north
they're stuck right they're stuck behind
england exactly and that's just not fair
not fair or right how do you see your
role now in the in the
uh
in the
new generation of musicians in the uk
where do i see my role i mean is there a
role for you
do they see me as having a role i think
is more of a would you like to i don't
know i mean
i just get on with what i do you know
what i mean when brexit was happening we
were looking at lineups for festivals
okay are there any british headliners or
new talent coming up are they did we see
a difference of course the pandemic was
all over it yeah and it changed shuffled
everything again you were on a headline
spot for down the rabbit hole over here
you were ready to go even though i guess
gorillas is a
pretty expensive
uh production to put on right it's not
something you like load into a van and
get going no that was a kind of a risk
you you were you were willing to take to
oh yeah get it going
sure
i'm always prepared to i always put the
music always comes before any other
consideration you know
how does that work because
we may in the future see gorillas
reduced to just me playing the piano
and some cartoons yeah
i don't know
you know but it won't be like that i saw
the show in zigglerdome you had a lot of
guests that's that's what you want to do
as well well within the directions
within the context of gorillas yeah it's
it's it's about
it's a kind of like it's a
it's it's sort of it's just every time
someone new comes on it raises the
the temperature a bit you know it's it's
like a relay
you know i always imagine all these
people all these people traveling
together as well yes it must be
an exciting bunch it's fantastic it
lacks it's very it's really it's it's a
i love it it's great um
but
it is
one aspect of what i am you know i mean
i i am also
because this is
bringing all the people together and the
record that you made now i mean you've
worked with other people with some close
people that they've worked
a lot with
at the same time it seems more you yeah
it's more
yeah it's just that's why it's called a
solo record i mean not because i did it
all on my own but just because
it's
definitely more about me than
if i'm doing gorillas or whatever you
know does it change the way
you write the songs as well or could you
just as well write the same topics
yeah for a gorilla song
yeah i mean it just it just depends you
know
so now you have to choose are you are
you gonna or you could do all of them
are you gonna
be back with gorillas on the road next
summer are you gonna do this or you're
gonna do both are you gonna gonna start
with this and then i'm going to do that
do you look forward to seeing the sea of
people again i've seen the sea of people
already
of course you did uk
yeah so
it's great to see the sea of people i
mean i
i love that but it's uh
you know
certainly don't take it for granted
thank you so much my pleasure for your
time it was good talking to you yeah
good job i love the record i can say
this i always say that
when it's done
so it feels fair yes it's exactly you
don't want to say at the beginning thank
you so much
you

damien album welcome

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humility::noun | Spocien Dictionary

humility

noun

/hju'mɪlɪti/

a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride

Type	Words
Synonyms	humbleness
Type of	trait
Has types	subduedness, meekness
Derivation	humble

not everyone regards humility as a virtue.

humility::noun | Spocien Dictionary

humility

noun

/hju'mɪlɪti/

a humble feeling

Type	Words
Synonyms	humbleness
Type of	feeling
Has types	submission, self-depreciation, meekness

he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope.

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