Both Uses
staid
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- The staid, sober, thinking and industrious ones of our number would employ themselves in making corn-brooms, mats, horse-collars, and baskets; and another class of us would spend the time in hunting opossums, hares, and coons.†
Chpt 10
- I staid at the camp meeting one day longer than I intended when I left.†
Chpt 11 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(staid) respectable or conservative, and low-keyed in behavior -- possibly a bit dull
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In older English novels by such authors as Charles Dickens or Jane Austen, you will also encounter staid as an alternative spelling of stayed (past tense of stay).