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Composure

//kəmˈpoʊʒɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Calmness of mind or temperament. countable, uncountable

    "That all may see who hate us, how we seek Peace and composure […]"

  2. 2
    steadiness of mind under stress wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of composing countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "1818, John Evelyn, Memoirs, edited by William Bray, London: Henry Colburn, 2nd edition, Volume I, entry for 10 March, 1685, p. 592, […] Signʳ Pietro […] had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching."

  4. 4
    Something which is composed; a composition. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  5. 5
    Orderly adjustment; disposition. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] from the various Composures and Combinations of these Corpusoles together, happen all the Varieties of the Bodies formed out of them […]"

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  1. 6
    Frame; make; temperament. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] his composure must be rare indeed Whom these things can not blemish […]"

  2. 7
    A combination; a union; a bond. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] their fraction is more our wish than their faction: but it was a strong composure a fool could disunite."

Etymology

From compose + -ure.

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