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repose

re·pose

UK/ɹɪˈpəʊz/ US/ɹəˈpoʊz/ uncommon archaic literary obsolete rare
noun (3) verb (6)

noun

1.

freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

  • “took his repose by the swimming pool”
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3.

verb

1.

put or confide something in a person or thing

  • “These philosophers reposed the law in the people”
2.

be inherent or innate in;

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3.

lie when dead

  • “Mao reposes in his mausoleum”
4.

lean in a comfortable resting position

  • “He was reposing on the couch”
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5.

put in a horizontal position

  • “lay the books on the table”
  • “lay the patient carefully onto the bed”
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6.

to put something (eg trust) in something

  • “The nation reposed its confidence in the King”

Origin

The verb is derived from Middle English reposen (“to rest”), from Anglo-Norman reposer, reposir, and Middle French reposer, from Old French reposer, repauser (“to become calm; to be peaceful; to rest; to be immobile; to lie or be placed; to cease, stop; to neglect”) (modern French reposer), from Latin repausāre, the present active infinitive of repausō (“(Late Latin) to be at rest; to lie down, rest; to sleep; to calm, pacify; (Latin) to halt temporarily, pause”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + pausō (“to cease, halt; to pause”) (from pausa (“a halt, stop; a pause; an end”), from Ancient Greek παῦσῐς (paûsĭs, “ceasing, stopping”), from παύω (paúō, “to cease; to make to cease, stop; to bring to an end; to hinder”) (further etymology uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result)). The noun is derived from Late Middle English repose, from Anglo-Norman repous, repos, and Middle French repos, repose, from Old French repos (“calm; rest; period or state of sleep; state of immobility; state of inaction”) (modern French repos), from reposer, repause...

Phrases

  • altar of repose
  • angle of repose
  • lie in repose
  • repose in action
  • statute of repose

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