different between meeten vs meeken

English

Etymology

From meet (“fit, suitable”) +? -en.

Verb

meeten (third-person singular simple present meetens, present participle meetening, simple past and past participle meetened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become meet or fit; make suitable; adapt; prepare.
   • 1817, Francis Augustus Cox, Female Scripture biography:

     Let us accustom ourselves to contemplate the most eminent examples of this spirit, that, by daily imitating them, we may, through grace, be progressively "meetening" for the participation of their inheritance.

   • 1824, David Russell (of Dundee.), A familiar survey of the Old and New Covenants:

     [...] and were long proved by a series of various and often afflictive providences, in order to make known what was in their hearts, that they might be humbled ; and in other respects, meetened for the good which was prepared for them in their latter end, [...]

   • 1887, Henry Donald M. Spence- Jones, The pulpit commentary:

     Self-discipline meetens. Sorrow meetens. Suffering meetens.

Anagrams

• mentee, temene

English

Etymology

From Middle English mekenen, meknen, equivalent to meek +? -en.

Verb

meeken (third-person singular simple present meekens, present participle meekening, simple past and past participle meekened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become meek or submissive.
   • 1779, John Wesley, Collection of Psalms and Hymns. The Collection

     Tear each other's flesh no more,
     But kindly think and speak the same;
     All express the meekening power
     And spirit Of the Lamb!