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How to use meekness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word meekness? Here are some examples.

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But he attributes any meekness to feelings of inferiority rather than superiority.
Every sign of meekness was eliminated as the frail child became the robust, headstrong youth.
Every dog in office is obeyed with such unquestioning meekness, that every dog in office is tempted to become a cur.
Patience can be meekness, patience can be too ready acceptance or passivity.
She wore a humble white dress shirt and a white skirt, and carried herself with meekness and humility.
However, the leader of Kosovo's hard-pressed Serbs, Bishop Artemije, showed greater meekness.
This is marked by modesty, meekness, sincerity and purity, and a thirst to seek the path.
Do you speak to them with meekness and gentleness with the heart of service?
Halina highlighted the fact that authority is a path of humility and meekness.
From pain you can extract light that is wisdom, meekness, fortitude and sensitivity.
Arrogance will go away and it will be filled with humbleness, and the anger goes away, and meekness replaces it.
For this reason, after so many years, they do not bear the fruit of love or fruit of meekness.
Never in history has human desire been so tamed into meekness.
This frustrated some UN staffers in Sri Lanka, who gripe that such meekness plays into the hands of Sri Lanka's bullying leaders.
We wholeheartedly reject the call for dialogue and the meekness that both lead to dictatorships and concentration camps.
The salvation of the world lies in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility.
As we try to improve the heritage they left us we may find it an occasion for meekness.
By chance, does he think that love, charity and meekness are not attributes of the human heart?
Francis infused in the human community a spirit of good will, of meekness and peace that was spread until now.
The spirit of Mary was the same tenderness that emanates from the Father in order to give humanity the perfect example of humility, obedience, and meekness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But then his unsurrendered faith in God, his reverence for his task, and his sobering estimate of himself would show as meekness.
Assist me to overcome sensuality by mortification, avarice by almsdeeds, anger by meekness, and tepidity by zeal.
Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Though not a revengeful character, he had not that meekness which never resents.
More sad even than compulsory meekness of two statesmen on front bench is depression of Saunderson.
In that land men worship the ox, for his simpleness and for his meekness, and for the profit that comes of him.
Mr. Kraus was excused in a state of hydrophobic rage and Teed withdrew in all meekness.
Keep yourself from the fire incandescence and make you prepared to fight and destroy it from the meekness.
What have I done to deserve such a fate, I who have tried to walk in meekness and righteousness all my days.
I asked with a still further meekness that was the depths of wiliness.
Lydgate was bowing his neck under the yoke like a creature who had talons, but who had Reason too, which often reduces us to meekness.
Maybe you can guess, but it is beyond me,' says my mother, with the meekness of one who knows that she is a dull person.
Can he compass his spirit with meekness, and strangle a natural oath?
His anger changed to meekness, and his words were mild and fawning.
Yet by her meekness she had oftentimes controlled them both.
The meekness of Quakerism will do in religion but not in politics.
She speaks gently, but there is an obstinacy in him, despite his meekness.
The rage of the wolf is changed to the meekness of the lamb.
This meekness of wisdom Elder Knowles preeminently possessed.
Then patchwork or towels appeared, and Amy sewed with outward meekness and inward rebellion till dusk, when she was allowed to amuse herself as she liked till teatime.
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