I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even the rare moments of repose were filled with plans.
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He could see Steen's face in its pained repose , and felt certain that he was up against a case of murder.
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His reactions caused him pleasure, fury, deep repose or inner peace.
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The only true repose is in the grave.
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This would have been more expensive than the winding-sheet but it presented the body in a more natural attitude of repose .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And if we allowed there to be a deity or deities, what confidence could we repose in them?
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Dominic and Piers repose in unruffled calm nearby.
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Such confidence can not safely be reposed in people of very mean or low condition.
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The relic reposes in a glass-fronted reliquary beneath a side altar of the same church in which it was first interred.
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The strength of the court used to be that, when all else failed, trust continued to repose there at least.
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Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!
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Two skulls repose upon the same Worn pillow in their dusty mine.