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Webster 1913 Edition


Meeken

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Meek

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Meek′en

(-’n)
}
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Verb.
T.
To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Meeken

MEE'KEN

,
Verb.
T.
mee'kn. To make meek; to soften; to render mild.

Definition 2024


meeken

meeken

English

Verb

meeken (third-person singular simple present meekens, present participle meekening, simple past and past participle meekened)

  1. To make or become meek or submissive.
    • 2001, Christian Bök, Eunoia:
      "Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled -- her strength, expended; her reserves, depleted."