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Lawlynes, n. Also: lawlynas, lawli-, laulines. [ME. and e.m.E. lowly-, lowlines(se (a 1413), Lawly a.] Lowliness.
1. Humility. Also personified.(1) 1456 Hay II. 67/37.
And that he be hamely for his lawlynes and hichty in tyme a1487 Gud Wife & D. 49.
God dois honour till lawlynas Quhen prid is pwnyst in all plas c1508 Ch. & M. Pr. vii c. 9.
O maidyn hede of vertu nobilest Flurisching in ioy and perfyte lawlynes 1560 Rolland Seven S. 9465.
Persauing hir patience, Hir lawlynes, and gentill countenance a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitl. F. xxx. 79.
Pryde now is comptit magnanimitie And lawlines is iugeit base curage 1565 Reg. Morton I. 15.
It … becumis ws in all lawlynes of hart to awaytt patiently for his leaseur 1565–6 Melville Chart. 110.
With maist humill lawlynes and seruice to the said nobill prence 1567 G. Ball. 44.
Jesus wusche his apostillis feit, Schawand exempill of lawlynes c1590 Fowler I. 204/5.
My laulines all proude disdayne resists(2) c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 163.
Womanhede … led wyth hir Nurture and Lawlynes 1560 Rolland Seven S. 6314.
Quhair thair is pryde, Grace can not byde, Out of that rowme beliue he rinnis … To Lawlynes to seik ane innis a1585 Maitl. Q. lxix. 52.
This plesant plant, … The body haill wes luifsum lawlines Ib. 64.
Laulines lay law vnder the trie
2. Humble rank or condition, abjectness. 1490 Irland Mir. I. 134/18.
[Mary] considerit hire gret laulines and humilite, [and] the gret dignite of the Lord a1568 Scott vi. 12.
Luve to hienes hes no heid, Nor lychtleis lawlines ane air c1568 Lauder Minor P. i. 445.
Nabuchodonezer … Wes, for his hicht, transformit in ane beist, Quhill he agane of lawlynes did taist
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