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▪ I. † reˈposeful, a.1 Obs.
[f. repose v.1 3 (or v.2 4).]
In whom confidence is or may be placed: trustworthy, reliable; confidential, responsible.
1627Sir R. Cotton in Morgan Phœnix Brit. (1732) I. 68 Though princes may take..some reposefull friend, with whom they may participate their neerest passions [etc.]. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 28, I know not, where she can picke out a fast friend, or reposefull confident of such reciprocall interest. 1644― Twelve Treat. (1661) 28 To another he gave one of the prime and most reposefull Offices about his own Person at Court.
▪ II. reposeful, a.2|rɪˈpəʊzfʊl|
[f. repose n.]
Full of repose; having an air of repose; quiet.
1852Reade Peg Woff. (1853) 259, I call it beautiful!.. So calm and reposeful; no particular expression. 1869Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 306/2 That reposeful yet energetic self-reliance, which we justly admire in the ruler. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. xiv. 198 An attractive expression of reposeful friendliness pervaded his whole appearance.
Hence reˈposefully adv.; reˈposefulness.
1881M. E. Braddon Asph. II. 311 Seated reposefully in his great red morocco armchair. 1883G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Feb. 392/2 It seems to lack reposefulness. |