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sedateness|sɪˈdeɪtnɪs|
[-ness.]
The quality or fact of being sedate (see the adj.).
1647H. More Song of Soul Notes 148/2 With inimitable serenity, and sedatenesse of mind. 1655Cromwell Sp. 22 Jan. ⁋17 (Carlyle) There was a very great peace and sedateness throughout these Nations. 1697Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 176 He behaved himself all the while with great sedatenesse, as became a person under his circumstances. 1730Waterland Suppl. to Nat. Sacram. 1 To preserve the Coolness and Sedateness proper to religious or learned Enquiries. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. 49 May and myself walking with the sedateness and decorum befitting our sex and age. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. V. 5 The sedateness of his deportment and the apparent regularity of his life delighted austere moralists. 1910Q. Rev. Apr. 330 It was an age of sedateness and comparative repose. |