Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a lowly manner; humbly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Obs. or R. In a lowly place or manner; humbly.
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- adverb In a
lowly way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Book affright them not, delivering high things lowlily, and with few words a copious meaning.
The Confessions 1999
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'I will build for my gods greatly yet lowlily, measuring my effort to those powers of man which at their fullest I know to be moderate, making my work harmonious with what little it is permitted to me to know' -- in jumps the rash Christian, saying with the men of Babel,
Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The Ranger bent most lowlily to the ground, for he well knew the veneration this man excited both amongst soldiers and Puritans.
The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840
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With these words, she crossed her arms meekly on her bosom, and inclined lowlily before him.
Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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They approached the altar; and there the King knelt down lowlily, and none heard the prayer.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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King knelt down lowlily, and none heard the prayer.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Have you done with me?" then he said, bowing his head lowlily, for his pride was gone; "may we -- that is, I and this, my poor device -- withdraw from your palace?
The Last of the Barons — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Have you done with me?" then he said, bowing his head lowlily, for his pride was gone; "may we -- that is, I and this, my poor device -- withdraw from your palace?
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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