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Definition of Subduedness
1. Noun. The property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity.
2. Noun. A disposition to be patient and long suffering.
Generic synonyms: Humbleness, Humility
Specialized synonyms: Spinelessness
Derivative terms: Meek, Meek, Subdued
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subduedness
Literary usage of Subduedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (1883)
"... also, visions and longings of that world of heavenly song, so far away and
yet so near us; and fill the soul with subduedness, expectancy, and ecstasy! ..."
2. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"Gray first caught its curious faculty for subduedness—for minor keys of thought,
emotion, description—and brought this faculty out without a false note from ..."
3. Expository lectures on st. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians by Frederick William Robertson (1872)
"Again: Meekness and subduedness before God—these are of the Spirit; but Moses
merely commanded fasts. ..."
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