adv. [f. LOWLY a. + -LY2.] In a lowly fashion or manner.

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c. 1340.  Hampole, Prose Tr. (1866), 11. Þat þay … serve þame mekely and gladly and lawlyly.

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1587.  Golding, De Mornay, xxx. 481. He shall … enter into the Citie very poorely and lowlily.

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1844.  Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile, Poems 1850, I. 79. Live and love—Doing both nobly, because lowlily.

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1881.  Shairp, Asp. Poetry, iv. 116. Only by thinking lowlily of himself, and highly of those better than himself.

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