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Lowliness n.

The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind. "Walk... with all lowliness and meekness."

Low condition, especially as to manner of life. "The lowliness of my fortune has not brought me to flatter vice."

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Etymology of 'Lowliness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lowliness" Quotes from Famous Books

... of my patrimony," said Evellin; "I have bowed my aspiring mind to the lowliness of which I was born to be the protector; I have a good King, a good cause, a faithful wife, dear lovely children. De Vallance shall not long triumph. But say, Williams, didst than ever hear of treachery so complicated, so deep, so ...

— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West

... us to join ourselves to Him, to unite our weakness to His strength, our ignorance to His wisdom, our unworthiness to His merits. God's providence is the school in which we are to learn the meekness and lowliness of Jesus. The Lord is ever setting before us, not the way we would choose, which seems easier and pleasanter to us, but the true aims of life. It rests with us to co-operate with the agencies which ...

— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

... comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things ...

— Concerning Christian Liberty - With Letter Of Martin Luther To Pope Leo X. • Martin Luther

... His wandering sheep back home. "I will bring them ... to their own land." We return from the land of pride to the home of lowliness, from hard indifference to gracious sympathy, from the barrenness of sin to the beauty of holiness. We come back to God's beautiful "lily-land" ...

— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett

... the man, who had thought that his parents' mixed marriage was a common subject for gossip in the hotel—which it was—sprang to his feet, The future still held the moment when someone would enlighten her as to the lowliness of ...

— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest

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