adv. [f. ABASED + -LY2.] In an abased or humbled manner; humbly, abjectly, downcastly.
1571. Henryson, Fables, 42. The sheepe againe before the Wolfe arenȝied, But (= without) Advocate, abasedly could (= did) stand.
1859. Masson, Milton’s Youth, in Essays, 42. Those other passages … which exhibit the poet as … looking about abasedly among his literary contemporaries.
