tranquil

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  1. adjective Free from commotion or disturbance. See Synonyms at calm.
  2. adjective Free from anxiety, tension, or restlessness; composed.
  3. adjective Steady; even: a tranquil flame.

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  • It appears perfectly tranquil, and should at any time any difficulties arise, it is but three days 'journey back to England again. —  Letters and Journals 01
  • -- "Be tranquil, my Prince; I can assure your Imperial Highness that there is no danger." —  Recollections of the private life of Napoleon
  • It would be the tranquil, the retired life of a Benedictine which he would have unfolded to you. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
  • Our mob was extremely tranquil, and very unlike those I remember in my father's time, when it was a measure in the Opposition to work up everything to mischief, the Excise and the French players, the Convention and the Gin Act. We are as much now in the opposite extreme, and in general so pleased with the peace, that I could not help being struck with a passage I read lately in Pasquier, an old French author, who says, “that in the time of Francis I. the French used to call their creditors 'Des Anglois,' from the facility with which the English gave credit to them in all treaties, though they had broken so many.” —  Letters of Horace Walpole 01
  • Be tranquil, my friend; utter no word till you cannot help it; — and think yourself a “reporter,” till you find (not with any great joy) that you are not altogether that! —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English tranquill, from Latin tranquillus; see kweiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French tranquille =Spanish tranquilo =Portuguese Italian tranquillo, from Latin tranquillus, quiet, tranquil.
 

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