repose

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I agree with Holmes, if only in this: "repose is not the destiny of man".

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Quick take

freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of repose gathered in one view.

noun

freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

noun

the absence of mental stress or anxiety

noun

a disposition free from stress or emotion

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for repose.

noun

freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

noun

the absence of mental stress or anxiety

noun

a disposition free from stress or emotion

verb

put or confide something in a person or thing; "These philosophers reposed the law in the people"

verb

be inherent or innate in;

verb

lie when dead; "Mao reposes in his mausoleum"

verb

lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch"

verb

put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"

verb

to put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed its confidence in the King"

Example sentences

I agree with Holmes, if only in this: "repose is not the destiny of man".

SO the rules of Lego-tower-building have to have the slope of the sides of the tower steeper than the angle of repose of a mass of bricks, eh?

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Some people may say that man’s moral influence will suffice to rule them; but I cannot think it will ever be safe to repose much trust in the moral sense of any machine.“Again, might not the glory of the machines consist in their being without this same boasted gift of language?

The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

When asked how he simultaneously maintained a law practice; made groundbreaking discoveries in Proto-Indo-European linguistics; maintained fluency in 41 languages; translated many of the major works of Sanskrit literature into English for the first time; and wrote treatises on law, history, botany, poetry, geography, astronomy, and music, Sir William Jones replied: "A change in labour is a species of repose.