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meekness

N ความ นอบน้อม  mildness submission timidity kwam-nab-nom

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MEEKNESS

n.Softness of temper; mildness; gentleness; forbearance under injuries and provocations. 1. In an evangelical sense, humility; resignation; submission to the divine will, without murmuring or peevishness; opposed to pride, arrogance and refractoriness. Galatians 5:23.
I beseech you by the meekness of Christ. 2 Corinthians 1 :1.
Meekness is a grace which Jesus alone inculcated, and which no ancient philosopher seems to have understood or recommended.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MEEKNESS

MEEKNESS Meek "ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being meek.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

meekness

meek ness |ˈmēknis | noun the fact or condition of being meek; submissiveness: all his best friends make fun of him for his meekness.

 

Oxford Dictionary

meekness

meek |ness |ˈmiːknɪs | noun [ mass noun ] the fact or condition of being meek; submissiveness: all his best friends make fun of him for his meekness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

meekness

meekness noun her meekness covers up a precocious intelligence and strength: patience, long-suffering, forbearance, resignation; gentleness, mildness, softness, peacefulness, docility, diffidence, modesty, humility, humbleness, unpretentiousness, lowliness; submissiveness, submission, self-effacement, self-abasement, lack of resistance, compliance, obedience, acquiescence, tameness, deference; archaic mansuetude.