单词 | meekening |
释义 | meekeningn. rare. The action or process of making meek; meek submission, abasement. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > [noun] > making humble meekinga1333 chastening1526 meekening1537 abasing1548 humbling1549 unperching1586 remissiona1628 1537 Bible (Matthew's) Psalms li. 19 (margin) The mortifynge of the fleasshe and meakenynge of the hert. 1859–60 J. Hamilton Moses (1870) v. 86 The meekening process in the mind of God's destined agent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). meekeningadj. Now rare (chiefly poetic). That makes a person meek or humble. Also in extended use.In quot. a1849 as the second element of a compound. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > [adjective] > making humble abasing1615 chastening1667 meekening1698 humblinga1732 1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 46 No less rightlie illumininge, then as trulie..humblinge and mekeninge. 1698 M. Henry Disc. Meekness (1822) 166 Repentance..is very meekening. 1762 C. Wesley Happy Day of Union Sweet in Short Hymns on Select Passages I. 319 All express the meek'ning power, The Spirit of the Lamb. a1849 E. Elliott Etheline ii. xvi, in Poet. Wks. (1876) II. 373 Soul-meekening sadness sweetly crept The region o'er. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1537adj.1597 |
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