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tranquillity|træŋˈkwɪlɪtɪ|
Also 4–7 with y for i, l for ll, -te, -tee, -tye, -tie for -ty; 7– (now U.S.) tranquility.
[a. F. tranquillité (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. tranquillitāt-em, f. tranquill-us tranquil: see -ity.]
The quality or state of being tranquil; freedom from disturbance or agitation; serenity, calmness; quietness, peacefulness. a. Of the mind or affairs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. iv. 29 (Camb. MS.) By tranquillite [v.r. -tee] of thi sowle. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 29 Lyvenge in peace and tranquillite after that tyme. 1535Coverdale Prov. xi. 23 The iust laboure for peace and tranquylite. 1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 17 That Court which is, forum spirituale, considers the publique tranquility. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. vi. 29 There is no such thing as perpetuall Tranquillity of mind, while we live here. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. xi. 27 A preliminary step toward the restoration of tranquillity. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, The tiny birds..hopped about in perfect tranquillity.
b. Of the weather, the elements, etc.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xxvii, Sey to..þe norþen wynde, ‘blowe not’; & þere shal be gret tranquillite. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. Ep. Ded. A ij, Therfore is this tranquilite of the sea for that litle tyme, as a trwce taking in the winter, called the halcions dayes. 1748Anson's Voy. i. viii. 82 We fully expected..to have experienced the celebrated tranquillity of the Pacifick Ocean. 1823Wordsw. ‘A volant Tribe of Bards’, The intense tranquillity Of silent hills, and more than silent sky. a1854H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. x. (1855) 336 Bearing in..its own deep tranquillity, the reflection of the tranquillity of the heavens. |