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 greets as a friend the just critic, and for unjust and unkind treatment makes allowance as due to the blindness or hardness or weakness of the pitiful person who has nothing better to give.
From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt
When Mrs. Harlowe writes, her broken half-utter'd Sentences are so many Pictures of the broken timorous Spirit of Meekness tyrannised over, that dictates to her Pen.
From Remarks on Clarissa (1749) by Fielding, Sarah
Meekness in the form of a small birdlike person with beseeching amber eyes.
From Felony by Causey, James
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