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the restraint of someone who could wreck you but chooses not to.
means The quality of being gentle, humble, and patient — not weakness, but a controlled, unforced calm in temperament.
from From Old Norse 'mjúkr,' meaning soft, pliant, or supple — the same family that gave English 'meek' itself. The '-ness' is the workhorse Old English suffix that turns a quality into a noun. So at root, meekness is about being bendable rather than brittle — a softness that holds, not snaps.
- original meaning
- Greek 'praus' described a war horse trained to obey
- not weakness
- Power held under control, not power absent
- biblical reward
- The meek inherit the earth, per Matthew
- etymology
- From Old Norse 'mjukr,' meaning soft or pliant
gandhi's non-violence movement — led salt march in 1930 india without armed resistance despite british colonial rule
martin luther king jr — refused to retaliate during montgomery bus boycott 1955-1956 alabama
dalai lama — maintained peaceful stance toward china despite 1959 tibetan uprising