2. Low condition, especially as to manner of life.

The lowliness of my fortune has not brought me to flatter vice.

Dryden.

Low"-lived` (?), a. Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and

vulgar condition of life; mean; dishonorable; contemptible; as,

low-lived dishonesty.

Low"ly (?), a. [Compar. Lowlier (?); superl. Lowliest.] [Low, a. +

-ly.] 1. Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands." Dryden.

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