What is the meaning of lowly?

Low or inferior in station or quality.
- usage: "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
- synonyms: humble, low, modest, small
Inferior in rank or status.
- usage: "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
- synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, secondary, subaltern
Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work.
- synonyms: humble, menial
Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense))
- usage: "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly. birth"
- synonyms: base, baseborn, humble

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