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Word Meanings - REPOSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.

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  • CONTENTMENT
    1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
  • CONTENTLY
    In a contented manner.
  • CONTENTIOUS
    Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
  • QUIETER
    One who, or that which, quiets.
  • CONTENTED
    Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing. -- Con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Con*tent"ed*ness, n.
  • QUIET
    p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They
  • REPOSURE
    Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.
  • CONTENTION
    1. A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak. 2. Strife in words; controversy; altercation quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. Contentions and strivings about the law.
  • QUIETISM
    The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace
  • QUIETSOME
    Calm; still. Spenser.
  • QUIETLY
    1. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. 2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. 3. Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion;
  • QUIETISTIC
    Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
  • QUIETAGE
    Quietness. Spenser.
  • QUIETUS
    Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
  • CONTENT
    Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest. Having food rainment, let us be therewith content. 1 Tim. vi. 8.
  • CONTENTS
    See N
  • CONTENTATION
    Content; satisfaction. Bacon.
  • QUIETNESS
    The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness. I would have peace and quietness. Shak.
  • QUIETUDE
    Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity. Shelley.
  • CONTENTFUL
    Full of content. Barrow.
  • DISQUIETTUDE
    Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
  • DISQUIETLY
    In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
  • UNQUIET
    To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
  • DISQUIETMENT
    State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
  • DISCONTENT
    Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
  • DISQUIETOUS
    Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.
  • INQUIETATION
    Disturbance. Sir T. Elyot.
  • INQUIET
    To disquiet. Joye.
  • MALCONTENTED
    Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
  • DISQUIETNESS
    Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.
  • DISQUIETFUL
    Producing inquietude or uneasiness. Barrow.
  • MALECONTENT
    Malcontent.

 

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