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Definition of Lowliest
1. lowly [adj] - See also: lowly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lowliest
Literary usage of Lowliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1886)
"The common people still remain true to their ancestral ways, but it is evident
that the leaven is at work, and sooner or later it must affect the lowliest. ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1842)
"It is the lowliest and most loving Christian that has the best right to call
himself A CATHOLIC. THE DIVINE RIGHT OF TITHES THE TRUE PRINCIPLE, ..."
3. Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes by Catherine Gasquoine Hartley (1917)
"There is perpetual variety in the actions of even the lowliest parents. I might
add many further examples more or less extraordinary, of the habits of fish ..."
4. Milton's Sonnets by Alden Sampson (1886)
"... (His) heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. and he stayed his hand
from the performance of that great work, that he might do exactly what our ..."
5. Picture Study in Elementary Schools by Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson (1900)
"Thou, whose genial dews distil On the lowliest weed that grows, Father ! guard our
couch from ill, Lull thy children to repose : We to Thee ourselves resign ..."
6. The Victory: Poems of Triumph by Charles Augustus Keeler (1916)
"... that Buddha's way leads unto peace Through kinship with the least and lowliest
lives. All are God's children, even as thou and I, United in the spirit ..."
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