self-collectedness
- a word derived from self-collected.
Example Sentences
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At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom.
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman
He should not forget that the highest honor was to command ourselves in misfortune; to bear pain, if it must be so, with equanimity and self-collectedness.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
She desired to return to a condition of more complete self-collectedness.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
It was more agreeable, in an hour of self-collectedness, to devise a remedy, which, if it did not cure the disease, helped at least to cicatrize the immediate wounds.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
Clearness, correctness, self-collectedness, near to the moment in question, add to the authority of the evidence.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
