meekhead

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English mekehede, equivalent to meek +‎ -head.

Noun

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meekhead (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The state or quality of being meek; meekness.
    • 1902, Julienne De Norwich, Sixteen revelations of Divine Love:
      For though we feel in us wrath, debate, and strife, yet we be all mercifully beclosed in the mildhead of God, and in his meekhead, in his benignity, and in his buxomness.