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composedness|kəmˈpəʊzdnɪs, -ɪdnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being composed. a. in outward bearing, appearance, or demeanour.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxxiii. (1632) 130 A man of so obseruable composedness, as that he had bin neuer seene to laugh. 1745Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 182 Gravity and composedness of behaviour. 1820Southey in Q. Rev. XXIII. 9 That this composedness was the demeanour of one who submitted to the stroke as a judicial visitation.
b. in mind, spirits, etc.
1627Bp. Hall Heaven vpon E. §2. 74 This due composednesse of minde we require unto our tranquillity. 1796Lamb Let. Coleridge 28 Oct., Rejoice with me in my sister's continued reason and composedness of mind. 1883Mrs. Oliphant Mem. Sheridan 208 Details which move the heart out of the composedness of criticism.
c. of a people, etc.: Settled order, tranquillity.
a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 168 The anarchy lasted, with some short intervals of composedness, till the general election of 1705. |