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serene
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  • "Well, you see, Lucius," said Dumbledore, smiling serenely, "the other eleven governors contacted me today."  (source)
    serenely = in a manner that is calm and untroubled
  • So serene was Judge Taylor's court, that he had few occasions to use his gavel, but he hammered fully five minutes.  (source)
    serene = calm and untroubled
  • He wondered if she and the other children had chosen this riverbank heaven, or if ... a serene landscape had been chosen for them.  (source)
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  • The serene beauty of the Rio Villa still takes my breath away.  (source)
    serene = calm and untroubled
  • The prospect did not seem to disturb Annie's weird serenity in the least, although Paul could not believe that, in some part of her mind, she did not realize how close to the end of the game they had now come.  (source)
    serenity = calm and untroubled manner
  • Charles Wallace accepted the explanation serenely.  (source)
    serenely = in a manner that is calm and untroubled
  • the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling off—serenest azure is at hand.†  (source)
    serenest = most calm and untroubled
  • Nine million corpses later, when the bands stopped and the serenities started running, the wail of bagpipes would never again sound quite the same.†  (source)
    serenities = in a manner that is calm and untroubled
  • This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapours among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • I studied England on a map, so neat and serene,  (source)
    serene = calm and untroubled
  • I summed my side up with rare serenity in, "The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said."  (source)
    serenity = calmness
  • A hot air balloon floated serenely through the clouds.  (source)
    serenely = in a manner that is calm and untroubled
  • And she announced, in the serenest, simplest tone, that, though she might never marry Mr. Rosier, she would never cease to think of him.†  (source)
    serenest = most calm and untroubled
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