Word Meanings - REPOSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to REPOSURE)

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