meekness

How To Use meekness In A Sentence

• Ministers must be patient, bearing with evil, and in meekness instructing (v. 25) not only those who subject themselves, but those who oppose themselves. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• It is not fierceness and violence can cure their fierceness, but meekness and condescendency to follow their humours and soft dealing with them. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness, with her silent steps of love.
• Just as the uni- prefix implies arrogance, multi- implies meekness, requiring Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, to come up with a toughening modifier: “assertive multilateralism.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
• Perceive the meekness and gentleness of the camel's temper, he summon the courage to approach it.
• He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village. Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
• As a babe is without malice negatively, so you must be positively and by actuation, that is, full of love and meekness; as the babe is unresisting, so must you be docile, and so on. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• As for me, though I was meekness itself, taking the most obscure position I could find, and remaining as absolutely motionless as possible, they eyed me with suspicion; from the first they "huffed" at me, and at this point began to squawk the moment In Nesting Time
• With such sanctified meekness does the Incorruptible lift his seagreen cheek to the smiter; lift his thin voice, and with jesuitic dexterity plead, and prosper: asking at last, in a prosperous manner: "But what witnesses has the Citoyen Barbaroux to support his testimony? The French Revolution
• She wore a humble white dress shirt and a white skirt, and carried herself with meekness and humility.