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Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary | 1986 | Copyright

297. Gentleness

Brown, Matilda meek, mild heroine. [Br. Lit.: Cranford ]
Casper the Friendly Ghost meek little ghost who desires only to make friends. [Comics: Horn, 162]
Cordelia gentle daughter of Lear. [Br. Lit.: King Lear ]
Eliante her kind heart contrasted with Celimene’s caustic wit. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope ]
Gentle Ben massive but extremely tame bear. [TV: Terrace, I, 302]
mallow traditional symbol of gentleness or mildness. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175]
March, Beth the domestic, sensitive, sweater-knitting March daughter. [Am. Lit.: Little Women ]
Virgilia meek, gentle wife of Coriolanus. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus ]
Wilkes, Melanie gentle, mild-mannered, dutiful Southern wife. [Am. Lit.: Gone With the Wind ]

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gentleness Paul compares his attitude to his converts to the gentleness of a nurse (1 Thess. 2: 7). So also Titus 3: 2.

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