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Repose   /ripˈoʊz/   Listen
noun
Repose  n.  
1.
A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet. "Shake off the golden slumber of repose."
2.
Rest of mind; tranquillity; freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment.
3.
(Poetic) A rest; a pause.
4.
(Fine Arts) That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eye; opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose.
Angle of repose (Physics), the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would remain at rest, or if in motion would roll or slide down with uniform velocity; the angle at which the various kinds of earth will stand when abandoned to themselves.
Synonyms: Rest; recumbency; reclination; ease; quiet; quietness; tranquillity; peace.


verb
Repose  v. t.  (past & past part. reposed; pres. part. reposing)  
1.
To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit. (Obs.) "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."
2.
To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch. "All being settled and reposed, the lord archbishop did present his majesty to the lords and commons." "After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue."
3.
To place, have, or rest; to set; to intrust. "The king reposeth all his confidence in thee."


Repose  v. i.  
1.
To lie at rest; to rest. "Within a thicket I reposed."
2.
Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms. "It is upon these that the soul may repose."
3.
To lie; to be supported; as, trap reposing on sand.
Synonyms: To lie; recline; couch; rest; sleep; settle; lodge; abide.





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... tears, or whether the grief were too weighty to let them flow, she sat there dry-eyed till the sun rose: she sat till noon, and would still have remained brooding over that deathbed, but I insisted on her coming away and taking some repose. It was well I succeeded in removing her, for at dinner-time appeared the lawyer, having called at Wuthering Heights to get his instructions how to behave. He had sold himself to Mr. Heathcliff: that was the ...
— Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte
... is the most animating impulse in the human breast. Man naturally detests inaction; he thirsts after change and novelty, and the prospect of excitement makes him prefer even danger to continued repose. ...
— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor
... dark blue, which looked as if they were not strangers to tears. At twenty she must have been strikingly beautiful; and even now, at thirty, few ladies could have vied with her had she possessed the means for gratifying her taste and studying her style. About the mouth, so perfect in repose, there was when she spoke a singularly sweet smile, which in a measure prepared one for the low, silvery voice, which had a strange note of mournful music in its tone, making Helen start as it asked: "Did you wish to ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... that may exhibit a contrast, in the felicity of the citizen, to the ever-increasing tyranny which desolates her polluted shores. She invites us to prepare an asylum, where the unhappy may find solace, and the persecuted repose. She entreats us to cultivate a propitious soil, where that generous plant, which first sprung and grew in England, but is now withered by the blasts of Scottish tyranny [alluding to Bute, Lord Mansfield, and other Scotch advocates of the right of Great Britain to tax America], may revive ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various
... heat as this, all this distance has been traversed by the steps of completion, and now that the affair has been settled and the confidence placed in you by his majesty been demonstrated, it will certainly be advisable if you should repose a short time in the shade of a tree and allay the fiery tongue of thirst by ...
— The Talking Beasts • Various


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