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Meanings of lowliness in English
Catalan
classe baixa A position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation.
Usage of lowliness in English
1
It breathes lowliness, submission, and contented acquiescence in a providence partially understood.
2
His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an indescribable courageous despondency.
3
T is by such lowliness that we arrive at our true sovereignty.
4
Humility, meekness, and lowliness are terms nearly synonymous, but not wholly so.
5
There they lived in their poverty and lowliness, hoping for better things!
6
He was very quiet, spoke almost in whispered lowliness; but he was unmistakable.
7
He is the first by his youth and the last by his lowliness.
8
The consciousness of loftiness does not alone avail to explain the transcendent lowliness.
9
The young lords crowded round to hear this dialogue between majesty and lowliness.
10
It appears, however, that lowliness is the deepest depth of humility and meekness.
11
But few traits of Christian character are more lovely than lowliness.
12
Let us thank our lowliness, since it secures us from temptation.
13
It is promising, sir; 'lowliness is young ambition's ladder,' as the Swan says.
14
The lowliness and death of Christ are the glory of God!
15
What a lesson of lowliness and of diligence it gives us!
16
Hapless am I, to whose pedigree is bound the lowliness of a peasant!
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