repose

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See also: reposé

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French reposer, from Late Latin repausāre (“to lay at rest, quiet, also nourish, intransitive to be at rest, rest, repose”), from Latin re- (“again”) + pausare (“to pause, rest”), from pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: re‧pose
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊz

Noun

repose (countable and uncountable, plural reposes)

  1. (dated) Rest; sleep.
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
  2. quietness; ease; peace; calmness.
  3. (geology) The period between eruptions of a volcano.
  4. (art) A form of visual harmony that gives rest to the eye.
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Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To lie at rest; to rest.
    • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Within a thicket I reposed.
  2. (intransitive) To lie; to be supported.
    trap reposing on sand
  3. (transitive) To lay, to set down.
    • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
    • (Can we date this quote by Woodward and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth […] are left behind.
  4. (transitive) To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
  5. (intransitive) To reside in something.
  6. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
    • (Can we date this quote by I. Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      It is upon these that the soul may repose.
  7. (intransitive, Eastern Orthodox Church) To die, especially of a saint.
    Simon reposed in the year 1287.
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Etymology 2

re- +‎ pose

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To pose again.

Further reading

Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) repose

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of reposar

French

Pronunciation

Verb

repose

  1. inflection of reposer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

repose

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reposar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reposar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reposar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of reposar.
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