Meanings of staidness in English

On the whole the staidness of the courtship was pleasing to her.

You might be thirty, Ruth, instead of twenty-two, by the staidness of your demeanor.

She thought only of women of her mother's age and staidness, who wore bonnets.

To-night Honor walked upstairs with unwonted staidness and gravity.

He achieved a staidness, and calmness, and philosophic tolerance.

He was dignity, staidness, correctness personified.

The three girls ran to the door in a tumultuous greeting, even Jemima losing her staidness for the occasion.

Thee won't believe it, because thee will think I lack the calmness and staidness that fit me for it.

The children had a nurse, Meysie Dickson, a girl who was already a woman in staidness and steadfastness at fifteen.

The little French chapel has its service, and there is a certain staidness about the morning which is unlooked-for and refreshing.

Even in those beautiful Oriental and Roman fictions there is a certain staidness, a measured step, from which he never departs.

American sportswriter Dan Jenkins doesn't always confirm to the staidness that the PGA of America sometimes likes to project in the game.

As to Antipas, her faithful servitor, he had relapsed again into his old staidness and sobriety in the comparative quietude of the prison.

My only hope is that my life will be quite private and simple, as will best become my inferiority and Lord Mountclere's staidness.

Every subsequent Virgin Prunes live show was, in many respects, a reaction to staidness and an attempt to throw surrealism into the pot.

She pursued the woman Warwick unmercifully through a series of interviews with her decorous and crudely-minded defenders; accurately perusing them behind their senior staidness.