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 Translation for 'meekness' from English to Swedish
NOUN   meekness | meeknesses
SYNO meekness | subduedness | submission
saktmod {n}meekness
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Translation for 'meekness' from English to Swedish

meekness
saktmod {n}
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Usage Examples English
  • He preached meekness and thorough understanding of the Bible and Holy tradition.
  • Both legends testify to the nobility, the hospitality and meekness of the locals.
  • To that end, he distinguished between master and slave moralities, and claimed that man must turn from the meekness and humility of Europe's slave-morality.
  • The fourth series is filled with "meekness" (ib. p. ...
  • In 60, at Empress Dowager Yin's endorsement, Emperor Ming created Consort Ma, Ma Yuan's daughter, whom Empress Dowager Yin had favored because of her meekness and lack of jealousy—perhaps because these traits mirrored her own—empress.

  • Meekness has been contrasted with humility alone insomuch as humility simply refers to an attitude towards oneself—a restraining of one's own power so as to allow room for others—whereas meekness refers to the treatment of others.
  • Abba Agathon was an Egyptian Orthodox Christian monk and saint who lived around the 4th century in Scetis, Lower Egypt and was known for his meekness and discernment.
  • In 1982, he was one of the singers of a popular rock opera in Malta known as The Lord, and was respected for his unique style as well as the meekness he always held.
  • He despised meekness and that is one of the reasons for his contempt towards his docile wife.
  • It is said that Theodoros struggled in his worship, and was perfect in his humility and meekness.

  • He was attached to his mother who was a little woman, yet one word from her was all that was needed charm him into meekness.
  • Meek is the adjectival form of meekness.
  • The bishop was noted for his meekness and for his self-mortifications.
  • Signifies the long history and the infiniteness, it also represents meekness and peace.
  • Kindness, meekness and comfort were her tongue (Sirach 36:23); if there was any virtue, and if there was any praise, she thought on those things (Philippians 4:8).

  • Hank Morgan's opinions are also strongly denounciatory towards the Catholic Church of the medieval period; the Church is seen by the Yankee as an oppressive institution that stifles science and teaches peasants meekness only as a means of preventing the overthrow of Church rule and taxation.
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