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src: wikipedia
- Definition
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- lowly :low or inferior in station or quality
- a humble cottage|a lowly parish priest|a modest man of the people|small beginnings
- lowly :inferior in rank or status
- the junior faculty|a lowly corporal|petty officialdom|a subordinate functionary
- lowly :of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
- baseborn wretches with dirty faces|of humble (or lowly) birth
- lowly :used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)