Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a lamb; gentle; humble; meek: as, a lamblike temper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
lamb ;gentle ;inoffensive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective like a lamb in meekness and gentleness
Etymologies
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Examples
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"lamblike" temper which is fulfilled in quiescence and disturbed by thought.
Robert Browning 1892
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Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book is positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws.
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Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book becomes positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws.
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Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book is positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws.
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Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book becomes positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws.
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Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book is positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws.
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Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book is positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws.
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I know you; you are a coward, and you will submit to the yoke of family life with a lamblike docility.
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Many a protagonist who is downright tigerish in defense of his ideals elsewhere in the book is positively lamblike when confronted by a boss, a lover, a child, etc. who points out his flaws.
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Even as his minions were, with his approval, flingingsuspected agitators into the Fortress of Peter and Paul, raiding the houses of liberal noblemen, and condemning writers andintellectuals to Siberian exile, a part of Alexander was still the sensitive Sasha, the boy with the mild, lamblike eyes.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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