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lowliness|ˈləʊlɪnɪs|
[f. lowly a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being lowly.
1. Meekness, humility; an instance of this.
a1413Hen. Pr. Wales Ep. to Hen. IV (Nat. MSS. I. 37), Alle the lowlinesse that any subget kan thenkke or devise. c1440Partonope 224 Lat fayle no curtasy And lowlynesse bothe to smalle and grete. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. iv. (Percy Soc.) 20 Than were endued Her crystall eyes full of lowlenes. 1535Coverdale Prov. xvi. 1 Lowlynes goeth before honoure. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 22 'Tis a common proofe, That Lowlynesse is young Ambitions Ladder. 1764J. Woolman Jrnl. (1840) 127 By so travelling..I might set an example of lowliness before the eyes of their masters. 1855Tennyson Maud i. xii. v, O Maud were sure of Heaven If lowliness could save her. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel (1876) 285 Greatness in lowliness.
2. Low state or condition; abjectness, poverty.
1596Spenser State Irel. (Globe ed.) 614/2 They say that they continued in that lowlyness, untill the time that the division betweene the two howses of Lancaster and Yorke arose. 1891T. K. Cheyne Origin Psalter vii. 353 Sympathy..made the Messiah like unto common men in their lowliness. |
