Both Uses
placid
in
The Minister's Black Veil
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- Though reckoned a melancholy man, Mr. Hooper had a placid cheerfulness for such occasions, which often excited a sympathetic smile where livelier merriment would have been thrown away.†
*placid = calm and not easily excited
- There was the black veil swathed round Mr. Hooper's forehead, and concealing every feature above his placid mouth, on which, at times, they could perceive the glimmering of a melancholy smile.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(placid) calm and not easily excited
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)