Synonyms for meekness
meek·ness

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1. meekness

   Synonyms:
   bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, humility, lowliness, modesty, submissiveness

   Antonyms:
   assurance, boldness, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumption, rudeness, sauciness

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1. meekness, submissionnoun

   the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness

   Synonyms:
   entry, submission, subduedness, compliance

2. meekness, subduednessnoun

   a disposition to be patient and long suffering

   Synonyms:
   dimness, submission, subduedness

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1. • Humility

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1. meeknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   humbleness, humility, lowliness, lowness, demureness, condescension, self-abasement, gentleness, modesty, submission, submissiveness, mildness

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How to use meekness in a sentence?

1. Václav Havel:

   The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

2. William Shakespeare:

   God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

3. Jimmy Townsend:

   Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

4. Author Unknown:

   Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

5. 1 Timothy 611 Bible:

   But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.