τᾰπεινότης, ητος, ἡ,
lowness of position, etc., ταπεινότητος εἵνεκα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.22; τ. τῆς χώρας 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.31; τῆς μήτρας “Placita Philosophorum” 5.14.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of condition, low estate, abasement, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75; εἰς τοσαύτην τ. καταστῆσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.118, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.74, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 531.12, LXX.Sir.13.20, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 1.11. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__3 lowness of spirits, dejection, σιωπήν τε καὶ τ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.21. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 in moral sense, baseness, vileness, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 309a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; joined with μικροψυχία, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1384a4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 of style, meanness, [[ 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus “Inst.” 8.3.48. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]