silent
adjective
making no sound; quiet; still.
silentness
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a word derived from
silent.
Example Sentences
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Far behind the strife that rages Silence sits with clasped hands; Undivided Purpose, freeing His own steps from hindrances, Sending out great floods of being, Bathes thy steps in silentness.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
None could sleep, for through all the air there was a presage of sorrow, a solemn "tingling silentness," to which their senses were painfully alive.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
Oh light be near and shining, Nearer than I guess, And teach me that true language Of silentness!
From Perpetual Light : a memorial by William Rose Benét
Strange is thy pallor; strange thy dress; Strange, above all, thy length of tress, And this all solemn silentness!
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Now all is still: the field-man is Lapped deep in slumbering silentness.
From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by Walter De la Mare
