Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being sedate; calmness of mind, manner, or countenance; composure; placidity; serenity; tranquillity: as, sedateness of temper; sedateness of countenance.
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- noun The state or quality of being
sedate ;calmness of mind, manner, or countenance;composure ;placidity ;serenity ;tranquillity .
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- noun a trait of dignified seriousness
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Examples
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No longer puppies, vaguely proud of the sedateness of maturity, they strove to be proud and sedate while all their impulse was to rush together in a frantic ecstasy.
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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No wifely sedateness in this other, nor calm strength of control; but rather the waywardness of mutable desires, rough-shod imperiousness and strange moods.
THE PROPER “GIRLIE” 2010
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My guess would be that in a society without much in the way of leash laws or big backyards, dogs with anti-social habits are dealt with, summarily, and that selects for pro-social habits of sedateness among the survivors.
The Dogs of Turkey 2009
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My guess would be that in a society without much in the way of leash laws or big backyards, dogs with anti-social habits are dealt with, summarily, and that selects for pro-social habits of sedateness among the survivors.
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But it never takes Americans long to conquer sedateness, and soon roadside restaurants were being built in the shapes of giant oranges and milk cartons and upside-down ice cream cones.
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Born of a good family in Toulouse, and allied by marriage to the minister who first took him under his protection, Ernest had that air of good-breeding which comes of an education begun in the cradle; and the habit of managing business affairs gave him a certain sedateness which was not pedantic, — though pedantry is the natural outgrowth of premature gravity.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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But I was taken by that air of cold And statuesque sedateness, when she said 'I'm going'; lit a taper, bowed her head, And went, as with the stride of Pallas bold.
No Sex Please, We're Victorian: A Handy-Dandy Guide to Code Words 2007
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The rubber was conducted with all that gravity of deportment and sedateness of demeanour which befit the pursuit entitled
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But, indeed, she only to make a face at me, so that I did be near like to shake her unto sedateness.
The Night Land 2007
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“You alarm me exceedingly, by this moving sedateness.”
Pamela 2006
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