lowly
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- Rhymes: -əʊli
Adjective[edit]
lowly (comparative lowlier, superlative lowliest)
- Not high; not elevated in place; low.
- Dryden
- lowly lands
- Dryden
- Low in rank or social importance.
- Alexander Pope
- One common right the great and lowly claims.
- Alexander Pope
- Not lofty or sublime; humble.
- Dryden
- these rural poems, and their lowly strain
- Dryden
- Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
- Bible, Matthew xi. 29
- Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.
- Bible, Matthew xi. 29
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Translations[edit]
not lofty or sublime; humble
Adverb[edit]
lowly (comparative more lowly, superlative most lowly)
- In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
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1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London]: Enprynted and fynysshed in thabbey Westmestre [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur by Syr Thomas Malory; the Original Edition of William Caxton Now Reprinted and Edited with an Introduction and Glossary by H. Oskar Sommer, Ph.D.; with an Essay on Malory’s Prose Style by Andrew Lang, London: Published by David Nutt, in the Strand, 1889, OCLC 890162034:, Bk.XXI, Ch.x:
- And there was none of these other knyghtes but they redde in bookes and holpe for to synge Masse, and range bellys, and dyd lowly al maner of servyce.
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- In a low condition; meanly.