Both Uses of
staid
in
Sense and Sensibility
- He entered the room with a look of self-consequence, slightly bowed to the ladies, without speaking a word, and, after briefly surveying them and their apartments, took up a newspaper from the table, and continued to read it as long as he staid.†
Chpt 19 *
- They were engaged about the end of that time to attend Lady Middleton to a party, from which Mrs. Jennings was kept away by the indisposition of her youngest daughter; and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or staid, prepared, without one look of hope or one expression of pleasure.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(staid) respectable or conservative, and low-keyed in behavior -- possibly a bit dull