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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOWLINESS, n. [from lowly.]
1. Freedom from pride; humility; humbleness of mind.
Walk - with all lowliness and meekness. Ephesians 4. Philippians 2.
2. Meanness; want of dignity; abject state. [In this sense little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of being humble and unimportant [syn: humbleness, unimportance, obscureness, lowliness]
2: a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation [syn: low status, lowness, lowliness] [ant: high status]

Merriam Webster's

noun see lowly II

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lowliness Low"li*ness, n. [From Lowly.] 1. The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind. Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. --Eph. iv. 1, 2. 2. Low condition, especially as to manner of life. The lowliness of my fortune has not brought me to flatter vice. --Dryden.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. -Humility, humbleness, meekness, self-abasement, submissiveness. 2. Lowness, meanness, abjectness.