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Lowly   /lˈoʊli/   Listen
Lowly

adjective
(compar. lowlier; superl. lowliest)
1.
Low or inferior in station or quality.  Synonyms: humble, low, modest, small.  "A lowly parish priest" , "A modest man of the people" , "Small beginnings"
2.
Inferior in rank or status.  Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, secondary, subaltern.  "A lowly corporal" , "Petty officialdom" , "A subordinate functionary"
3.
Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work).  Synonyms: humble, menial.
4.
Of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense).  Synonyms: base, baseborn, humble.  "Of humble (or lowly) birth"






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... simple, wise and foolish, good and wicked. The soul of every human being that has ever existed, the souls of all those who shall yet be born, all the sons and daughters of Adam, all are assembled on that supreme day. And lo, the supreme judge is coming! No longer the lowly Lamb of God, no longer the meek Jesus of Nazareth, no longer the Man of Sorrows, no longer the Good Shepherd, He is seen now coming upon the clouds, in great power and majesty, attended by nine ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... of how lowly was the start in life of many of our great men? Read the pages of history and you will find that fully seven out of ten of the great men were really poor. Bonaparte used to be a book agent, Gould was a surveyor, ...
— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various

... until at last the spark came, and a good fire soon blazed high, and sent out its glow toward the pine tree beneath which they were lying. Some large stones were soon heated in the hot embers, and rolled to the feet of the mother. Covering was brought and held to the fire, and the lowly bed made so warm that the exhausted mother and her little one fell into a natural and refreshing sleep. In the meantime Anna was everywhere scrambling and climbing among the freight, dragging what she could not carry, searching for anything that might be appropriated ...
— Peak's Island - A Romance of Buccaneer Days • Ford Paul

... vast notoriety—his obscure name tongued by stupendous Kings and Emperors—his picture printed everywhere, the trivialest details of his movements, what he eats, what he drinks; how he sleeps, what he says, cabled abroad over the whole globe at cost of fifty thousand dollars a day—and he only a lowly shoemaker yesterday!—like the assassin of the President of France—in debt three francs to his landlady, and insulted by her—and to-day she is proud to be able to say she knew him "as familiarly as you know your own brother," and glad ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... Oh lowly cots of Cymru, blest, yea, thrice blest are ye! Ye know not this world's greatness nor earthly dignity; Yet dwell within you ever, the love and peaceful rest Which fly from hall and palace of those the ...
— Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century • Edmund O. Jones


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