meetness
Example Sentences
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He used to observe, from Genesis, ii, 18, "I will make him a help-meet for him;" that there is not meetness, there will not be much help.
From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson
“There is meetness in all things,” said the old lady, picking up her distaff.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
Surely we should desire a meetness for our inheritance as well as a title to it.
From The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark
"I have thought so sometimes lately, but I wished so much to be one that, in seeking to fulfil the wish, I may have overlooked the meetness."
From Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Maude Alma
“And what meetness is in setting the like of me in a chair that would well hold Charlemagne and his twelve Peers?” demanded the little girl, laughing.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
