Lowliness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lowliness \Low"li*ness\, n. [From {Lowly}.]
     1. The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness
        of mind.
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              Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. --Eph.


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     2. Low condition, especially as to manner of life.
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              The lowliness of my fortune has not brought me to
              flatter vice.                         --Dryden.
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