Quietude vs Repose - What's the difference?
quietude | repose |
(dated) rest, sleep
* 1908 ,
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quietness, ease; peace, calmness
* Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10
(geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.
To lie at rest; to rest.
* Chapman
To lie; to be supported.
To lay, to set down.
* Chapman
* Woodward
To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
* Shakespeare
To reside in something.
(figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
* I. Taylor
As a noun quietude
is tranquility.As a verb repose is
.repose
English
Noun
- Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .
- You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
- So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- Within a thicket I reposed .
- trap reposing on sand
- But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
- Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.
- The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
- It is upon these that the soul may repose .
