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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lowly +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Book affright them not, delivering high things lowlily, and with few words a copious meaning.

    The Confessions 1999

  • '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

  • 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

  • With these words, she crossed her arms meekly on her bosom, and inclined lowlily before him.

    Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • 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

  • King knelt down lowlily, and none heard the prayer.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "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

  • "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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