composed
adjective
calm; tranquil; serene.
composedness
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a word derived from
composed.
Example Sentences
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It was remarkable that he spoke this with great composedness and seeming cheerfulness.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
In common with the lyric poet he also claims our mental participation, but not in the same calm composedness; the feeling of joy and sorrow which the dramatist excites is more immediate and vehement.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
We have already hard-heartedness, wickedness, composedness, and others.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
Now, in a while, the Maid did come to composedness, and to be very gentle and sweetly natural.
From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
The anarchy lasted, with some short intervals of composedness, till the general election of 1765.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
