meeknesses

English

Noun

meeknesses

  1. plural of meekness
    • 1878, Mary Cowden Clarke, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: In a Series of Tales:
      "[...] but you're sure to damp him with some of your confounded meeknesses, or prudences, or nonsenses of some kind or another, that none of us wants to hear."
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