repose
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- n freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
took his repose by the swimming pool - n the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- n a disposition free from stress or emotion
- v put or confide something in a person or thing
These philosophers reposed the law in the people - v be inherent or innate in;
- v lie when dead
Mao reposes in his mausoleum - v lean in a comfortable resting position
- v put in a horizontal position
- v to put something (eg trust) in something
The nation reposed its confidence in the King
- What Kolesnikov did in deciding to describe his position and entrapment, others have also done--in states of repose or terror.
- In it, Castro declared that surgery and treatment for intestinal bleeding "obliges me to spend several weeks in repose, away from my responsibilities and duties.
- More weekly haircuts, he asserts, could improve the chances for world peace because "neatness induces a repose in the mind.