abasedlyadv.

1830 J. H. Evans 29 Aug. in Preacher 2 Sept. 45/2 He will walk softly, abasedly, humbly, tenderly, thinking much of a word, of a thought, of a principle and of his practice.

1859 D. Masson Milton's Youth in Ess. 42 Those other passages..which exhibit the poet as..looking about abasedly among his literary contemporaries.

1920 D. Gatlin Missy vii. 249 Apprehensively, abasedly, but with legs still stolidly apart, Missy looked up.

1944 W. Duranty in C. Riess They were There ii. 63 These same men had..confessed their sins and beaten their breasts in contrition no less fully and abasedly on previous occasions.

2001 J. Kiaupienė tr. K. M. Dorohostajski in R. Butterwick Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context iv. 85 I humbly and abasedly beseech, that Your Highness..should be my gracious lord, benefactor and patron.