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/lˈəʊlinəs/
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NOUN
- the state of being humble and unimportant
- a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation
How To Use lowliness In A Sentence
- He has looked upon his servant in her lowliness, and people forever will call me blessed.
- What matters is the sacrifice of godly privilege for the lowliness of humanity, irrespective of gender.
- Such at any rate was the fact; the roach and the cat, by their humble station in life, and the lowliness of their associates, proved an admirable vantage for merciless joshing of everything biggity. Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis
- Such at any rate was the fact; the roach and the cat, by their humble station in life, and the lowliness of their associates, proved an admirable vantage for merciless joshing of everything biggity.
- And this did he to preserve his lowliness, and to avoid vainglory, which is the fretting moth of all virtues. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
- He has looked upon his servant in her lowliness, and people forever will call me blessed.
- When He that bowed the Heavens came to save sinners, Zacchaeus, great in zeal, but little of stature, beheld the Tree of Life from in the sycamore; lifted above the earth, he saw Jesus, Who called him: coming down in lowliness, he repenting, received Him; and so salvation came into his house, and he was shown forth a true son of Abraham. Lenten Weblog
- The Greek for "humility" is literally, "lowliness of mind," which forms a clearer parallel to Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- The second section explores contrasting divine attributes in ways that put their relationship to the soul's condition on good display (God's serenity and creativity, self-sufficiency and faithfulness, lordliness and lowliness).
- Very early tradition suggests that it was a cave, perhaps used as a stable, a mark of lowliness.