meeken
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English mekenen, meknen, equivalent to meek + -en.
Verb edit
meeken (third-person singular simple present meekens, present participle meekening, simple past and past participle meekened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become meek or submissive.
- 1779, John Wesley, Collection of Psalms and Hymns. The Collection:
- Tear each other's flesh no more,
But kindly think and speak the same;
All express the meekening power
And spirit Of the Lamb!
- 2001, Christian Bök, Eunoia:
- "Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled -- her strength, expended; her reserves, depleted."