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Meek

adjective
(compar. meeker; superl. meekest)
1.
Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness.  Synonyms: mild, modest.
2.
Very docile.  Synonym: tame.  "Meek as a mouse"
3.
Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant.  Synonym: spiritless.  "A fine fiery blast against meek conformity" , "She looked meek but had the heart of a lion" , "Was submissive and subservient"



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"Meek" Quotes from Famous Books



... first installment of "Earth, the Marauder" was swell. Harl Vincent is another very good author. His novelette, "The Terror of Air-Level Six," was a close second. "The Forgotten Planet," by S. P. Wright, "Beyond the Heaviside Layer," by S. P. Meek and "From an Amber Block," by Tom Curry ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various

... light-blue eyes; the restless timidity of her expression; the mixture of useless hesitation and involuntary rapidity in every one of her actions—all furnished the same significant betrayal of a life of incessant fear and restraint; of a disposition full of modest generosities and meek sympathies, which had been crushed down past rousing to self-assertion, past ever seeing the light. There, in that mild, wan face of hers—in those painful startings and hurryings when she moved; in that tremulous, ...
— Basil • Wilkie Collins

... forget George who certainly had as much reason as himself for finding the time long. But when, after some half hour of this tedium and suspense, there rose from below the faint clatter of ascending footsteps, he remembered his meek companion and beckoning him to one side, began a studied conversation with him, showing him a note-book in which he had written such phrases ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green

... me all ye who labour, and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls; for my yoke is easy and my burden is ...
— The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional • Father Chiniquy

... Yorkshire folk—thrifty, self-respecting, stiff-backed Nonconformists. His father and grandfather belonged to what is called "the old school," when parents ruled their families with an iron rod, and the meek, down-trodden children accepted punishment without question. Salter's grandmother had dismissed grown-up sons from table and kept a rebellious daughter for weeks incarcerated in her room. Salter's father had inherited her stern, Spartan spirit; ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker


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