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Lowly   /lˈoʊli/   Listen
adjective
Lowly  adj.  (compar. lowlier; superl. lowliest)  
1.
Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands."
2.
Low in rank or social importance. "One common right the great and lowly claims."
3.
Not lofty or sublime; humble. "These rural poems, and their lowly strain."
4.
Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart."



adverb
Lowly  adv.  
1.
In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly. "Be lowly wise."
2.
In a low condition; meanly. "I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught."






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"Lowly" Quotes from Famous Books



... To spare thy day From wrath, and wrong, and harm; To save thy land From the spoiler's hand, And the fell invader's arm. God's man is he, To deal to thee What is ask'd in a lowly spirit— Let thy prayer not cease, And wealth, and peace, And a blessing ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 • Various

... but, hastening out, raised Macgregor in his arms, and carried him into the inner cave, where Mary was lying sound asleep on her lowly couch. ...
— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne

... God, who crownest thy faithful servants with mercy and loving-kindness; look down upon this thy servant GEORGE our King, who now in lowly devotion boweth his head to thy Divine Majesty; and as thou dost this day set a crown of pure gold upon his head, so enrich his royal heart with thy heavenly grace; and crown him with all princely virtues, which may adorn ...
— Coronation Anecdotes • Giles Gossip

... love to think of Bethlehem, That little mountain town, To which, on earth's first Christmas Day, Our blessed Lord came down. A lowly manger for His bed, The cattle near in stall, There, cradled close in Mary's arms, He slept, the ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various

... animals and the lower division, where are classified the humbler insects, crabs, and snails. The young of Boltenia promises everything in its tiny backbone or notochord, but it all ends in promise, for that shadow of a great ambition withers away, and the creature is doomed to a lowly and vegetative life. If we soften the hard scientific facts which tell us of these dumb, blind creatures, with the humane mellowing thought of the oneness of all life, we will find much that is pathetic and affecting in their humble biographies from our point of view. And yet these cases ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe


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