Definition of "reposeful" [re•pose•ful]

• Marked by, conducive to, or expressing repose. (adjective)

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• "Not in a day can the tyro learn to employ the snarling immediacy of mastery of Mr. Pike, nor the reposeful, voiceless mastery of a"
• "For the first time she realized the quality of his strength, the calm and quiet of it, its simple integrity and reposeful determination."
• "Not sharp and vivid like that of her father, but dim and nebulous was the picture she shaped of her mother — a saint's head in an aureole of sweetness and goodness and meekness, and withal, shot through with a hint of reposeful determination, of will, stubborn and unobtrusive, that in life had expressed itself mainly in resignation."