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Definition of Meekest
1. meek [adj] - See also: meek
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meekest
Literary usage of Meekest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1885)
"fore the odor of sanctity as well as of leather, and is consecrated by the memory
of one of the best and bravest and meekest woman's lives ever lived. ..."
2. The Fashionable World Displayed by John Owen (1806)
"All those useful tables of instruction are assiduously employed, which teach who
was the first, the •wisest, the meekest, and the strongest man: and the ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle: With Personal by Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson (1881)
"Universe (so thou have time) attend my rhyming, Sense with sound, on meekest
theme, correctly chiming ! TO PETER NIMMO. I. THRICE-LOVED Nimmo ! art thou ..."
4. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"3 Here shall highest praise he offered ; Here shall meekest prayer he poured ;
Here, with hody, soul, and spirit, May thy love our hearts prepare; ..."
5. The Cambrian (1890)
"THE meekest MAN. "Who was the meekest man ?" was one of the old catechetical
questions on which the children of the last generation were brought up. ..."
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