单词 | lowlily |
释义 | lowlilyadv. Now somewhat archaic. In a lowly manner or fashion; humbly, modestly.In later use frequently in religious contexts. ΘΚΠ 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). < adv.1415 |
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