Meek
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Meek is very nearly equivalent in common usage to humble
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Strictly the two are not synonyms, as they are mutually exclusive, once you know the exact meaning & appreciate the etymology
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Meekness differs from humbleness in that meek people give up something, perhaps a right or an argument to appear humble to others, & to prevent sometimes petty differences escalating into a greater problem disproportionate to the original issue. True meekness comes from a position of being 'absolutely correct whilst being aware' whereas humbleness implies a potential lack of knowledge or grasp of a complicated situation, but genuinely not wanting to offend anybody, for any reason at any time, in any way.
The most famous usage of the word, is in a phrase from the Bible
, "the meek: for they shall inherit the earth" found in Matthew 5, further about that, can be found in Beatitudes
It may also refer to:
Humility
Humility is the quality of being modest, and respectful. Humility, in various interpretations, is widely seen as a virtue in many religious and philosophical traditions, being connected with notions of transcendent unity with the universe or the divine, and of egolessness.-Term:The term "humility"...
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Strictly the two are not synonyms, as they are mutually exclusive, once you know the exact meaning & appreciate the etymology
Etymology
Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
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Meekness differs from humbleness in that meek people give up something, perhaps a right or an argument to appear humble to others, & to prevent sometimes petty differences escalating into a greater problem disproportionate to the original issue. True meekness comes from a position of being 'absolutely correct whilst being aware' whereas humbleness implies a potential lack of knowledge or grasp of a complicated situation, but genuinely not wanting to offend anybody, for any reason at any time, in any way.
The most famous usage of the word, is in a phrase from the Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
, "the meek: for they shall inherit the earth" found in Matthew 5, further about that, can be found in Beatitudes
Beatitudes
In Christianity, the Beatitudes are a set of teachings by Jesus that appear in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The term Beatitude comes from the Latin adjective beatus which means happy, fortunate, or blissful....
It may also refer to:
People
- Albert Stewart MeekAlbert Stewart MeekAlbert Stewart Meek was an English bird collector and naturalist. The name Alfred S. Meek which can be read in several publications is referred to Albert Stewart Meek.-Biography:...
(1871–1943), British bird collector and naturalist - Alexander Beaufort MeekAlexander Beaufort MeekAlexander Beaufort Meek Alexander Beaufort Meek Alexander Beaufort Meek (July 17, 1814 (Columbia, South Carolina) – November 30, 1865 (Columbus, Mississippi) was an American politician, lawyer, chess player, writer and poet. He served as Alabama's Attorney General in 1836.-Works:...
(1814–1865), American politician, lawyer, writer and poet - Barbara MeekBarbara MeekBarbara Anita Meek is an American actress.Barbara Meek is best known to television viewers for playing the character of Ellen Canby for three seasons on Archie Bunker's Place...
(b. 1934), American actress - Bill MeekBill MeekWilliam M. Meek was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State University , the University of Houston , Southern Methodist University , and the University of Utah , compiling a career college football record of 78–88–7.-Early life:Meek was born in...
(1922–1998), American football coach - Carrie P. MeekCarrie P. MeekCarrie P. Meek is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida.-Background and early life:Meek, the granddaughter of slaves and daughter of former sharecroppers, was born and raised in segregated Tallahassee, Florida...
(b. 1926), American politician from Florida - Chantal MeekChantal MeekChantal Meek is a British-born Australian sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at Beijing in 2008....
, canoer - Donald MeekDonald MeekDonald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor. He first worked as a stage actor and later became a film actor, starring in several movies including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Miss Broadway, and State Fair. Before becoming an actor, he fought in the Spanish-American War and...
(1878–1946), Scottish character actor - Fielding Bradford MeekFielding Bradford MeekFielding Bradford Meek was an American geologist and paleontologist.The son of a lawyer, he was born in Madison, Indiana. In early life he was in business as a merchant, but his leisure hours were devoted to collecting fossils and studying the rocks of the neighborhood of Madison...
(1817–1876), American geologist and paleontologist - James MeekJames MeekJames Meek was Minister of Cambuslang from 1774 until his death. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1795, but is most remembered as the model Enlightenment cleric who wrote the entry for Cambuslang in the First Statistical Account of Scotland.-Biography :James...
, minister - James Meek (author)James Meek (author)James Meek is a British writer and journalist. He was born in London and grew up in Dundee, Scotland.Meek spent several years living in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s and now resides in London. He has published four novels and two short story collections. In 2004 he was named Foreign...
- Janice MeekJanice MeekJanice Meek FRGS is a Guinness World Record holding adventurer, ocean rower, international motivational speaker and polar adventurer...
, ocean rower - Jeffrey MeekJeffrey MeekJeffrey William Meek is an American actor. Meek and his family moved often; as a child, Meek lived in Zweibrücken, Germany, Michigan, and San Francisco....
, actor - Jerry MeekJerry MeekJerry Meek is a North Carolina attorney and Democratic Party activist who was the chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party from 2005 through 2009....
politician - Joe MeekJoe MeekRobert George "Joe" Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter....
(1929–1967), British record producer and composer - Joseph MeekJoseph MeekJoseph Lafayette "Joe" Meek was a trapper, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A pioneer involved in the fur trade before settling in the Tualatin Valley, Meek would play a prominent role at the Champoeg Meetings of 1843...
(1810–1875), American explorer, soldier and politician - Kendrick MeekKendrick MeekKendrick Brett Meek is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for from 2003 to 2011. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2010 Senate election for the seat of Mel Martinez, but he lost in a three way race to Republican Marco Rubio along with Independent Charlie Crist.-Early life,...
(b. 1966), American politician from Florida - Larissa MeekLarissa MeekLarissa Meek is a former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants and a reality television personality who starred in Average Joe: Hawaii.-Pageants:...
, American model - Leon J. Meek, (1926–1978), lawyer, he worked for the Colombian Government (in the Ministry of Labour, as Head of the Juridical Office)
- MeeK (musician)MeeK (musician)MeeK , is a Franco-English Alternative pop singer-songwriter, musician and producer...
(b. 1971), Franco-British singer/songwriter. - Meek (street artist)Meek (street artist)Meek is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia, and specialising in the sub-genre of Stencil graffiti....
, street artist based in Melbourne, Australia - Ronald L. MeekRonald L. MeekRonald Lindley Meek was a Marxian economist and social scientist known especially for his scholarly studies of classical political economy and the labour theory of value....
, economist - S. P. MeekS. P. MeekSterner St. Paul Meek was a US military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author. He published much of his work first as Capt. S.P. Meek, then, briefly, as Major S.P. Meek and, after 1933, as Col. S. P. Meek. He also published one story as Sterner St...
(1894–1972), US military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author - Seth Eugene MeekSeth Eugene MeekSeth Eugene Meek was an American ichthyologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He was the first compiler of a book on Mexican freshwater fishes. Together with his assistant, Samuel F. Hildebrand, he produced the first book on the freshwater fishes of Panama.He often collaborated...
(1859–1914), American ichthyologist - Stephen Meek (guide)Stephen Meek (guide)Stephen Hall Meek was a fur trapper and guide in the American west, most notably a guide on a large wagon train known as St. Joseph's Company...
(1805–1889), fur trapper and guide in the American west - Theophile MeekTheophile MeekA scholar at the University of Toronto, Theophile James Meek published widely on archaeology, corresponded with Wm. F. Albright, and was a frequent contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica on subjects related to the archaeology of both Palestine and Egypt...
, Canadian archaeologist - Tom MeekTom MeekTom Meek is a columnist and author of "Another Day In Cyberville" published weekly in The Gainesville Voice, a New York Times regional newspaper, beginning in October, 2000 in The Gainesville Sun. "Cyberville" deals with issues related to high-tech, computers, New Media and Internet issues...
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Elections
- Meek's method of counting a Single Transferable Vote election