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meekly

adv
/miːk.li/

Etymology

From Middle English mekely, mekeliche, equivalent to meek + -ly. Compare Old Norse mjúkliga.

  1. inherited from mekely

Definitions

  1. In a meek manner

    In a meek manner; quietly and humbly.

    • When Faith and Love which parted from thee never Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly thou did'st resign this earthly load Of Death, call'd Life; which us from Life doth sever.
    • It comes from the Latin insurgo, meaning “to rise up within”: so insurrectionists are, etymologically, the same as “insurgents”, even if that is normally a word for those who do not meekly accept western military rule.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at meekly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at meekly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at meekly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA