meekness
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Meekness, he said, “enables us to set aside everything that divides and estranges us, and to find ever new ways to advance along the path of unity.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2016
Meekness pervaded Villa and they seemed unable to muster a threat as the match ticked towards its conclusion.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013
Meekness had taken the place of the merriment which once made the house to ring, and the eye which once sparkled now showed sadness and concern.
From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine
Meekness, Fruit of the Holy Ghost, 163; potential part of temperance, 2465 c; definition, 2545.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
But they are fewer in number, and seem to have attained to greater Meekness and conquest of passions than any of the rest.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew
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