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  • adjective superlative form of peaceful: most peaceful.

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Examples

  • He would spend four times that long in “luxurious vagrancy” in the islands, which would ever afterward linger in his memory as “the peacefullest, restfullest, sunniest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge for a worn and weary spirit the surface of the earth can offer.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • He would spend four times that long in “luxurious vagrancy” in the islands, which would ever afterward linger in his memory as “the peacefullest, restfullest, sunniest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge for a worn and weary spirit the surface of the earth can offer.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • Emer is the peacefullest, snuggliest, snooziest baba that ever lived.

    Min dotter ailbhe 2006

  • They said of the intern, after the call that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there.

    A Tale of Two Calls 2005

  • They said of the intern, after the call that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there.

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • I beheld him not in his armor, but in his peacefullest robes.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

  • It was the peacefullest, decentest raid I ever heard of, and it would be difficult to think of anything with a termination more tame and commonplace.

    The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Johanna Brandt 1920

  • In front of the cathedral a German shell has dug a crater thirty feet across, overhung by splintered tree-trunks, burnt shrubs, vague mounds of rubbish; and a few steps beyond lies the peacefullest spot in Nieuport, the grave-yard where the zouaves have buried their comrades.

    Fighting France 1915

  • They said of him about the city that night that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there.

    A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Frank Boreham 1915

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