单词 | sedateness |
释义 | sedatenessn. The quality or fact of being sedate (see the adjective). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > [noun] resteOE peacea1225 egalityc1374 tranquillityc1374 peaceabilityc1384 sobernessc1384 tranquille1412 quietness?a1425 evenheadc1440 equalitya1475 equability1531 sobermood1556 calmness1561 evenness1561 serenity1599 collection1602 equilibrium1608 calm1609 temperateness1609 composedness1611 recollection1611 temper1611 unpassionateness1611 placidity1619 sereneness1628 attemperature1635 quietationa1639 equableness1641 steadiness1642 sedateness1647 imperturbation1648 placidness1654 centredness1662 equanimity1663 composure1667 serenitude1672 equalness1675 unperturbedness1676 dispassion1690 quietism1735 serene1744 relaxednessa1750 self-composure1762 sober-mindedness1767 collectedness1789 unprovokedness1795 comfortableness1815 repose1815 levelness1824 dispassionateness1842 unruffledness1858 passionlessness1867 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 148/2 With inimitable serenity, and sedatenesse of mind. 1655 O. Cromwell Speech to Parl. 22d Jan., 1654 16 There was a very great Peace, and sedateness, throughout these Nations. 1697 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 176 He behaved himself all the while with great sedatenesse, as became a person under his circumstances. 1730 D. Waterland Suppl. to Nat. Sacram. 1 To preserve the Coolness and Sedateness proper to religious or learned Enquiries. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 49 May and myself walking with the sedateness and decorum befitting our sex and age. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 5 The sedateness of his deportment and the apparent regularity of his life delighted austere moralists. 1910 Q. Rev. Apr. 330 It was an age of sedateness and comparative repose. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1647 |
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