| 释义 |
meekness|ˈmiːknɪs|
Forms: see meek a.; also 4 mikeness, mueknesse, 6 meacknesse, meakenes, mykenes.
[f. meek a. + -ness.]
The quality of being meek; gentleness of spirit; humility.
c1200Ormin 3612 Þatt dide he forr to shæwenn swa Unnseȝȝendliȝ meocnesse. a1240Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 273 Meknesse and mildschipe makes mon eihwer luued. a1300Cursor M. 9996 Sco serued in vr lauerd dright, In mikenes suet, bath dai and night. 1340Ayenb. 65 God þet loueþ Mueknesse and zoþnesse. c1400Destr. Troy 3941 Eneas was..A man full of mekenes & mery of his chere. c1440Promp. Parv. 331/2 Mekenesse, and softenesse, mansuetudo, clemencia. 1542–5Brinklow Lament. (1874) 108 Yet for all their outwarde meakenes and holynes, they be within rauenynge wolues. 1556Aurelio & Isab. (1608) N vij, You shall use towardes me suche meacknesse, lyke as God usethe unto all sinnars. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, v. iii. 62 Loue and meekenesse, Lord, Become a Churchman, better then Ambition. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 310 It must be owing to my Meekness, more than his Complaisance. 1860J. W. Warter Sea-board II. 161 Gentle natures in which grace has kindled meekness. |