Smarmy self-loathing?
Incessant refusal to acknowledge anything one contributes, by God's mercy, to the world?
Edwards:
True Christian humility of heart tends to make persons resigned to the will of God, patient and submissive to his holy hand under afflictions, full of awful [i.e. awe-full] reverence towards the Deity, ready to treat divine things with great respect, and of a meek behavior towards men . . . respectful towards superiors, gentle, easy to be entreated, not self-willed, not envious, but contented with his own condition, of a peaceable and quiet spirit, not disposed bitterly to resent injuries, but apt to forgive.--Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits, Works, Yale ed., 8:304-5
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