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The New Oxford Dictionary of English
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January 2002

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... In Exline and Geyer's (2004) research on religious seekers in comparison with other groups, humility was linked with good adjustment, confidence, and the need to be more humble. Negative connotations of humility are contained in the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of this concept (Pearsall & Hanks, 1998)-"the quality of being humble or having a lowly opinion of oneself; meekness, lowliness, and humbleness"-reflects a historically rooted approach to humility as a negative, socially undesirable attitude. This has had a negative impact on research into this phenomenon and on the focus on other religious-rooted virtues such as compassion (Saslow et al., 2013) and forgiveness (Davis et al., 2010;Hardy et al., 2014;Wnuk, 2022a). ...

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Whether Prayer Among Polish Employees Is Related to Egoism at Work: The Moderating Role of Employees’ Perception of Their Relationship With God and the Mediating Role of Humility
The New Oxford Dictionary of English
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  • January 2002