lowly

Preposition: of

• heart: Do you recall the Lord Jesus said, " I am meek and lowly of heart.

Used with adjective complement

• score: The price and range of food, opening hours and quality of food all scored relatively lowly.
• entertain: We have secured third spot in the league and entertain lowly Weybridge at home on Saturday with a shot at remaining unbeaten this year.
• rank: At a mere 30 miles, it ranks lowly among important roads in Scotland.
• consider: However, he was refused; as a curate, Kilvert was considered too lowly a match for the daughter of a landed family.

Modifies a noun

• shepherd: Why did He pick lowly shepherds to be the witnesses of this divine beginning?
• clerk: George Starling was a lowly paid clerk who had married his secretary who then gave up work to run the marital home.
• peasant: He decided that he would resign his kingship and become a lowly peasant himself.
• servant: Alexander the Great, once gave a magnificent golden cup to one of his lowly servants.
• position: Position: 15th How do you account for your lowly position?
• beginning: Micah begins by focusing on the Messiah's lowly human beginnings.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: Duncan senior had himself spent some time in the relatively lowly position of a ship's surgeon.
• however: In evolutionary terms we are all linked together in time and linked even with every other creature on earth however lowly.
• too: However, he was refused; as a curate, Kilvert was considered too lowly a match for the daughter of a landed family.
• so: Now it turns out that the intestines are not so lowly after all.
• very: There are no rooms, only suites, of which mine was a very lowly variety.
• fairly: Considering the fairly lowly memory used with it, this is a quite impressive score.

Preposition: in

• heart: Then let me ask, are you walking in the steps of your Master who was " meek and lowly in heart " ?
• spirit: They laid the greatest stress on being meek and lowly in spirit.