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Found 4 hits - Term: meek, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meek \meek\, meeken \meek"en\ -'n, v. t.
   to make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. obs.
   --chaucer.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meek \meek\ m=ek, a. compar. meeker m=ek"~er;
   superl. meekest. oe. mek, meoc; akin to icel. mj=ukr
   mild, soft, sw. mjuk, dan. myg, d. muik, goth. mukam=odei
   gentleness.
   1. mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient
      under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful;
      forbearing; submissive.
      1913 webster

            now the man moses was very meek.      --num. xii. 3.
      1913 webster

   2. evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by
      mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face. "her
      meek prayer." --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   syn: gentle; mild; soft; yielding; pacific; unassuming;
        humble. see gentle.
        1913 webster meek
see also:
meeker meekest gentle 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
meek
     adj 1: humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or
            even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"
            syn: mild, modest
     2: very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- langston
        hughes syn: tame
     3: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or
        compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of
        those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek
        conformity"- orville prescott; "she looked meek but had
        the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient"
        syn: compliant, spiritless
see also:
mild modest tame compliant spiritless 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 moby thesaurus words for "meek":
   abject, accommodating, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive, adjusting,
   amenable, bland, broken, chastened, compliant, deferential, docile,
   domesticated, dovelike, forbearing, gentle, housebroken, humble,
   humble-minded, humble-spirited, humblehearted, lamblike, lenient,
   long-suffering, lowly, manageable, meek-minded, meek-spirited,
   meekhearted, mild, modest, obedient, pacific, passive, patient,
   peaceable, poor in spirit, quiet, reconciled, repressed, resigned,
   retiring, shy, spiritless, subdued, submissive, suppressed, tame,
   tamed, timid, tolerant, tractable, unambitious, unaspiring,
   unassuming, unboastful, uncomplaining, unimposing, unobtrusive,
   unostentatious, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending,
   unpretentious, unresisting, weak, yielding





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