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ˈpeacefulness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality, character, or state of being peaceful; disposition or inclination for peace (now rare); quietness, tranquillity; undisturbed condition.
1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year ii. viii. 94 Humility, Peacefulnesse and Charity. 1755in Johnson. 1813Shelley Q. Mab iv. 157 To turn The keenest pangs to peacefulness. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 103 The quiet stillness and peacefulness of nature. 1863Kinglake Crimea I. xxviii. 487 The steps by which England was brought from her seeming peacefulness into a temper impatiently warlike. |
