Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reposing or resting.
- noun That on which one reposes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or state of reposing.
- noun obsolete That on which one reposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or state of
reposing . - noun obsolete That on which one reposes.
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Examples
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Opposite to exercise is idleness (the badge of gentry) or want of exercise, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, and a sole cause of this and many other maladies, the devil's cushion, as [1540] Gualter calls it, his pillow and chief reposal.
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'To consider the act of prayer as a reposal of myself upon God, and a resignation of' all into his holy hand. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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'To consider the act of prayer as a reposal of myself upon God, and a resignation of' all into his holy hand. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767
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a highly refined conception -- from viewing the rights of property as exclusively sacred, to looking upon the rights growing out of the mere unilateral reposal of confidence as entitled to the protection of the penal law.
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855
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"Idleness," says Burton, in that delightful old book "The Anatomy of Melancholy," "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal ...
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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"Idleness," he says, "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal ....
Character Samuel Smiles 1858
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