Meaning of Repose | Babel Free
ɹɪˈpəʊzDefinitions
- Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.
- Of the Virgin Mary: death; also assumption into heaven.
- The festival honouring the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on August 15.
- The state of being peacefully inactive or relaxed, or being free from disturbances or worries; calmness, ease, peace, quietness.
- Calmness of the mind or temperament; composure.
- Of the face, a muscle, etc.: the state of being relaxed and not in tension.
- The state of lying still and unmoving; calmness, tranquillity; (countable) an instance of this.
- Relief or respite from something exhausting or unpleasant; (countable) an instance of this.
- Confidence, faith, or trust in something.
- The arrangement of elements of an artwork, a building, etc., that is restful and soothing to a viewer; harmony.
- The state of leaving something alone or untouched; (countable) an instance of this.
- Chiefly in the form point of repose, position of repose, etc.: absence of motion; equilibrium; (countable) a position where an object is not moving and at rest.
- Of a natural phenomenon, especially the eruption of a volcano: the state of temporary cessation of activity; dormancy, quiescence.
- A piece of furniture on which one can rest, especially a couch or sofa.
- A place of rest.
- The technique of including in a painting an area or areas which are dark, indistinct, or soft in tone so that other areas are more prominent, or so that a viewer can rest they eyes when looking at them; (countable) such an area of a painting.
Equivalents
Examples
“So forth ſhe rode vvithout repoſe or reſt, / Searching all lands and each remoteſt part, […]”
“Content thee Cytherea [i.e., Aphrodite] in thy care, / Since thy Æneas vvandring fate is firme, / VVhoſe vvearie lims ſhall ſhortly make repoſe, / In thoſe faire vvalles I promiſt him of yore: […]”
“My fathers Palace, Madam, vvill be proud / To entertaine your preſence, if youle daine / To make repoſe vvithin.”
“From him that vveareth hyacinth, and beareth the crovvne, euen to him, that is couered vvith rude linen: furie, enuie, tumult, vvauering, and the feare of death, anger perſeuering, and contention, and in time of repoſe in bed, the ſleepe of night changeth his knowledge.”
“VVhiles vve ſtood here ſecuring your repoſe, / (Euen novv) vve heard a hollovv burſt of bellovving / Like Buls, or rather Lyons, did't not vvake you? / It ſtrooke mine eare moſt terribly.”
“The Country King his peaceful Realm enjoys: / Cool Grots, and living Lakes, the Flovv'ry Pride / Of Meads, and Streams that thro' the Valley glide; / And ſhady Groves that eaſie Sleep invite, / And after toilſome Days, a ſvveet Repoſe at Night.”
“[D]uring the heats of ſummer, he commonly took his repoſe upon a bulk, or indulged himſelf, in freſco, vvith one of the kennel-nymphs, under the portico of St. Martin's church.”
“If then it ſhould be aſked from vvhat cauſe this ſtate of repoſe proceeds, or in vvhat manner ſleep thus binds us for ſeveral hours together, I muſt fairly confeſs my ignorance, although it is eaſy to tell vvhat philoſophers ſay upon the ſubject.”
“The air is damp, and hush'd, and close, / As a sick man's room when he taketh repose / An hour before death; […]”
“And being, from the emotion he [Ebenezer Scrooge] had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the Invisible World, or the dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of repose; went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant.”
“Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose.”
“You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?”
“[T]he Felicity of this life, conſiſteth not in the repoſe of a mind ſatisfied.”
“[…] I am diverted from that subject by letters which I have received from several ladies, complaining of a certain sect of professed enemies to the repose of the fair sex, called Oglers.”
“"So may thy lineage find at last repose," / I thus adjur'd him, "as thou solve this knot," / Which now involves my mind.”
“The air of wealth and repose diffused about them seemed to comfort their neediness.”
“But lord! she goes with so blithe a repose, / And comes so shapely about you, / That ere you're aware, with a glance and an air, / She whisks your heart from out you.”
“She had the passions of her kind, / She spake some certain truths of you. / Indeed I heard one bitter word / That scarce is fit for you to hear. / Her manners had not that repose / Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.”
“Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman,—repose in energy. The Greek battle-pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect; as we say of Niagara, that it falls without speed.”
“[T]here is in the Englishman a combination of qualities, a modesty, an independence, a responsibility, a repose, combined with an absence of everything calculated to call a blush into the cheek of a young person, which one would seek in vain among the Nations of the Earth.”
“In repose the faces of the men were intelligent and dignified, those of the women ofttimes prepossessing.”
“He has a handsome face, mind you, in repose.”
“But o'er the tvvilight groves, and dusky caves, / Long-ſounding iſles, and intermingled graves, / Black Melancholy ſits, and round her throvvs / A death-like ſilence, and a dread repose: […]”
“[H]e arose, / Ethereal, flush'd, and like a throbbing star / Seen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose; […]”
“Over the whole landscape lay a repose and a peace so perfect that no one could have suspected the close proximity of the capital.”
“O Sole in whom my thoughts find all repoſe, / My Glorie, my Perfection, glad I ſee / Thy face, […]”
“I vvho lately ſang / Truth, Hope and Charity, and touch'd vvith avve / The ſolemn chords, and vvith a trembling hand, / Eſcap'd vvith pain from that advent'rous flight, / Novv ſeek repoſe upon an humbler theme; […]”
“'Tis almost / Thirty-four years of nearly ceaseless warfare / With the Turk, or the powers of Italy; / The state had need of some repose.”
“VVe are to take occaſion as much as poſſibly vve can, […] to find the repoſe of vvhich vve ſpeak, by the Light and by the Shadovv, vvhich naturally accompany ſolid Bodies.”
“VVhile proudly riding o'er the azure realm / In gallant trim the gilded Veſſel goes; / Youth on the provv, and Pleaſure at the helm; / Regardleſs of the ſvveeping VVhirlvvind's ſvvay, / That, huſh'd in grim repoſe, expects his evening-prey.”
“[…] Vesuvius was virtually in repose, and the slow changes in the heaped white cloud above the crater were only like those of a thunder cloud.”
“[S]he lay expecting her coming Lover, on a repoſe of rich Embroidery of Gold on blevv Sattin, […]”
“[W]orſt is my Port, / My harbour and my ultimate repoſe, / The end I vvould attain, my final good.”
“[A]fter the great Lights, there muſt be great Shadovvs, vvhich vve call repoſes: becauſe in reality the Sight vvould be tired, if it vvere attracted by a Continuity of glittering objects. […] Theſe repoſes are made tvvo ſeveral vvays, one of vvhich is Natural, the other Artificial. The Natural is made by an extent of Lights or of Shadovvs; vvhich naturally and neceſſarily follovv ſolid Bodies, or the Maſſes of ſolid Bodies aggroupp'd vvhen the Light ſtrikes upon them. And the Artificial conſiſts in the Bodies of Colours, vvhich the Painter gives to certain things, ſuch as pleaſes him; and compoſes them in ſuch a manner, that they do no injury to the objects vvhich are near them. A Drapery, for example, vvhich is made yellovv or red on ſome certain place, in another place may be brovvn, and vvill be more ſuitable to it, to produce the effect requir'd.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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