All 5 Uses of
repose
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- "Of whom—of what are you thinking?" asked Adele of her companion, whose countenance she had been watching with a little amused attention, arrested by the absorbed expression which seemed to have seized and fixed every feature into a statuesque repose.†
Chpt 7
- She was not much given to reclining in the hammock, and when she did so it was with no cat-like suggestion of voluptuous ease, but with a beneficent repose which seemed to invade her whole body.†
Chpt 10
- The whole place was immaculately clean, and the big, four-posted bed, snow-white, invited one to repose.†
Chpt 13 *
- There was no moment of deliberation, no interval of repose between the thought and its fulfillment.†
Chpt 29
- Late in the afternoon she sought refuge with Mademoiselle Reisz, and stayed there alone, waiting for her, feeling a kind of repose invade her with the very atmosphere of the shabby, unpretentious little room.†
Chpt 33
Definitions:
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(1)
(repose as in: repose on the sofa) to rest or lie
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Repose can also mean to put something (e.g., trust) in someone or something.