meet
verb (used with object)
to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter.
meetness
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a word derived from
meet.
Example Sentences
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These the deep, tender records, Sacred in all their meetness, That, wakening purest fancies, Soften us with their sweetness; As, gathered where flickering fagots burn, We welcome the holy season's return.
From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Robert Haven Schauffler
"I have thought so sometimes lately, but I wished so much to be one that, in seeking to fulfil the wish, I may have overlooked the meetness."
From Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Maude Alma
Surely we should desire a meetness for our inheritance as well as a title to it.
From The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark
He used to observe, from Genesis, ii, 18, "I will make him a help-meet for him;" that there is not meetness, there will not be much help.
From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson
Be it ours, like Lazarus, to attain a meetness for heaven, by becoming more and more like Lazarus’ Redeemer!
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
