Meanings (ES + gloss)
modesto
Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
humilde • manso • resignado • sumiso
Submissive, dispirited, cowed.
What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.