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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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HUMILITY n. 2 definitions

The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts xx. 19.

A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Müller's glass.

HYPERSENSIBILITY n.

See Hyperæsthesia.

A fossil footprint; an ichnite.

ICHNOLITHOLOGY n.

Same as Ichnology. Hitchcock.

ICHTHYOCOPROLITE n.

Fossil dung of fishes.

ICHTHYODORULITE n.

One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.

A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.

IDEALITY n. 3 definitions

The quality or state of being ideal.

IDRIALINE; IDRIALITE n.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

Ignobleness. [Obs.] Bale.

The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

ILLEGIBILITY n.

The state or quality of being illegible.

ILLIBERALITY n.

The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.

ILLITERACY n. 2 definitions

The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.

Not literal. [R.] B. Dawson.

Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.

ILLITERATURE n.

Want of learning; illiteracy. [R.] Ayliffe. Southey.

Want of locality or place. [R.] Cudworth.

IMAGINABILITY n.

Capacity for imagination. [R.] Coleridge.