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单词 lowlily
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lowlilyadv.

Brit. /ˈləʊlᵻli/, U.S. /ˈloʊlᵻli/
Forms: late Middle English lawlyle, late Middle English lawlyly, 1500s lowelely, 1500s– lowlily.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: lowly adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < lowly adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare earlier lowly adv.
Now somewhat archaic.
In a lowly manner or fashion; humbly, modestly.In later use frequently in religious contexts.
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the mind > emotion > humility > [adverb]
edmodlichec1175
meeklyc1175
low1340
lowlyc1350
humblyc1374
humilyc1380
meeka1382
poorlyc1385
benignlyc1386
lowlily1415
sheep-like1582
demissly1598
squire-like1608
demissively1622
forma pauperisa1627
under favour1699
daftly1724
abasedly1830
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adverb]
lowlyc1350
demurelyc1400
lowlily1415
simplyc1430
murely1474
littlya1500
modestly1569
unpretendingly1701
unambitiously1746
meeverly1757
unpresumptuously1758
unostentatiously1771
unconceitedly1812
unpretentiously1852
unassertively1981
1415 in 43rd Ann. Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. (1882) App. i. 582 in Parl. Papers (C. 3425) XXXVI. 1 Lawlyle withe hert knelyng and body knelyng.
c1440 (a1349) R. Rolle Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 11 Þat þay..serue þam mekely, and gladly and lawlyly.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxx. 560 He shal..enter into the citie very poorely and lowelely.
1659 R. Baxter Key for Catholicks i. xxvi. 172 As if we knew not how lowlily and poorly they [sc. the Popes] spoke to those that were above them.
1756 W. Dodd Nature & Necessity of Fasting 41 The more lowlily we think of ourselves,..the more we shall esteem others, and prefer them to ourselves.
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 103 Live and love—Doing both nobly, because lowlily.
1881 J. C. Shairp Aspects Poetry iv. 116 Only by thinking lowlily of himself, and highly of those better than himself.
1919 Biblical Rev. Oct. 531 Causing Israel to think truly and therefore lowlily of itself in its relation to Him.
1994 Church Times 2 Dec. 19/1 We are a secular country... We do not order ourselves lowlily and reverently to all our betters; we think we don't have any.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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