We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of sedateness in English
Usage of sedateness in English
1
He invented the most wonderful stories, and told them with imperturbable sedateness.
2
Let us then, my Imogen, compose ourselves to the sedateness of despair.
3
Her wonted sedateness vanished as she thus became her daughter's playmate.
4
She again noticed my sedateness, and inquired into the cause.
5
There is another passion but its sedateness hardly qualifies it for that intense term.
6
They seemed very solemn, but Keith sensed the happy spirit underlying their outward sedateness.
7
Wych Hazel bowed her head with extreme sedateness and went on with her dinner.
8
At this the three big hussies felt alarmed, stepped back, and subsided into sedateness.
9
The sedateness of her aspect and her kind compliance in this meeting gave me hopes.
10
She has left off the giddiness of childhood to take on the sedateness of youth.
11
While she spoke this she began gradually to gain a more entire sedateness and self-command.
12
I had behaved with unusual sedateness, had showed an aplomb I had never before evidenced.
13
But if you do attend, observe gravity and sedateness, and also avoid making yourself disagreeable.
14
Their simplicity, fervor, and sedateness had won his regard.
15
The sedateness of this announcement was inexpressible, coming as it did after a little thoughtful pause.
16
Now I said to myself that she had certainly a look of greater sedateness than before.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Sedateness through the time
Sedateness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common