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comparative meeker, superlative meekest
Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. quotations examples
Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Matthew 5:5
Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 8”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848
Submissive, dispirited. quotations examples
What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.read here
1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe
third-person singular simple present meeks, present participle meeking, simple past and past participle meeked
(US) (of horses) To tame; to break. examples