lowliness in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for lowliness in the English»French Dictionary

lowliness [Brit ˈləʊlɪnəs, Am ˈloʊlinəs] N

lowliness

modestie f

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability?

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To enter into the mystery we need the lowliness that is powerlessness, the renunciation of our idols... in a word, we need to adore.

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The old foodways, negatively associated with poverty and social lowliness, are abandoned for higher-status junk food.

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It is the very stigma of lowliness that has caused a migration from traditional cooking toward the popularised western fast-food diet.

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I always figured that he had so few canine companions because he'd had enough of his own race, and was embarrassed by the lowliness of his social ranking.

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He questions the status of the object as work of art or product as well as the border between preciousness and lowliness, elegance and vulgarity, the serious and the absurd.

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Your life becomes degraded to the baseness or lowliness of your bad habits.

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No, these elections do not present a choice between good and bad, decency and rottenness, loftiness and lowliness.

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