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Modestly or meekly.

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Usage examples (37)
  • To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
  • He humbly lowered his head
  • He had called humbly upon my father when we first went to live at old-world
  • We're saved for some good purpose, sir, and it's only fit we should say a word humbly to our blessed Father in heaven. "
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