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Displeasing.. 



217. Humility is well defined by Dr. Cogan, the sense of 

 our own deficiency in intellectual or moral excellencies ; to 

 which we may add, rank, fame and power, or the sense of 

 our own deformity or despicable appearance. It differs much 

 from humiliation, which consists in a painful depression of 

 pride or self-estimation. 



218. Resignation denotes humble submission to the endur- 

 ance of pain, on the pleasing persuasion that such ac- 

 quiescence is grateful to the Supreme Being. It is therefore 

 a mixed sentiment of pain and pleasure, though the pain 

 commonly preponderates. 



219. Patience also denotes calm submission to the endur- 

 ance of pain or atfliction, but from a less elevated motive, 

 namely, the persuasion of the inutility and aggrevating ten- 

 dency of vexation, or the necessity of its endurance to the 

 production of some preponderating good. 



Painful. 



290. Irksomeness, that peculiar uneasiness and weariness 

 arising from protracted indefinite expectation, and more 

 commoniy from the want of pursuit or attention to any ob- 

 ject. 



