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Lowly vs. Humble

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Lowlyadjective

Not high; not elevated in place; low.

Humbleadjective

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

‘He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.’;

Lowlyadjective

Low in rank or social importance.

Humbleadjective

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

Lowlyadjective

Not lofty or sublime; humble.

Humbleverb

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.

Lowlyadjective

Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.

Humbleverb

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive.

Lowlyadverb

In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.

Humbleverb

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Lowlyadverb

In a low condition; meanly.

Humbleadjective

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

‘THy humble nest built on the ground.’;

Lowlyadverb

At low pitch or volume.

‘He muttered lowly.’;

Humbleadjective

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

‘God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.’; ‘She should be humble who would please.’; ‘Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.’;

Lowlyadjective

Not high; not elevated in place; low.

Humbleadjective

Hornless. See Hummel.

Lowlyadjective

Low in rank or social importance.

‘One common right the great and lowly claims.’;

Humbleverb

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

‘Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plaguesHave humbled to all strokes.’; ‘The genius which humbled six marshals of France.’;

Lowlyadjective

Not lofty or sublime; humble.

‘These rural poems, and their lowly strain.’;

Humbleverb

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; - often used rexlexively.

‘Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you.’;

Lowlyadjective

Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.

‘Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.’;

Humbleverb

cause to be unpretentious;

‘This experience will humble him’;

Lowlyadverb

In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.

Humbleverb

cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

‘He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss’;

Lowlyadverb

In a low condition; meanly.

‘I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught.’;

Humbleadjective

low or inferior in station or quality;

‘a humble cottage’; ‘a lowly parish priest’; ‘a modest man of the people’; ‘small beginnings’;

Lowlyadjective

low or inferior in station or quality;

‘a humble cottage’; ‘a lowly parish priest’; ‘a modest man of the people’; ‘small beginnings’;

Humbleadjective

marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;

‘a humble apology’; ‘essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions’;

Lowlyadjective

inferior in rank or status;

‘the junior faculty’; ‘a lowly corporal’; ‘petty officialdom’; ‘a subordinate functionary’;

Humbleadjective

used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Lowlyadjective

used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Humbleadjective

of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

‘baseborn wretches with dirty faces’; ‘of humble (or lowly) birth’;

Lowlyadjective

of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

‘baseborn wretches with dirty faces’; ‘of humble (or lowly) birth’;

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