repose
noun
the state of resting or being at rest; sleep.
reposedly
-
a word derived from
repose.
Example Sentences
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One mused reposedly on life—the other warmly of the immediate hours before her.
From The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold
With excellent precision the tulip bed inside the iron fence upreared its gaudy yellow, white and red, rimmed round with grass, reposedly.
From Sour Grapes A Book of Poems by William Carlos Williams
