repose
verb C2- To place (confidence, faith, or trust) in someone or something.
- Followed by in: to entrust (duty, power, etc.) in someone; to confide.
- To put (a body part) back in its usual location; to reposition.
- Of a thing: to be in the management or power of a person or an organization.
Plural repose · He/she/it reposes · Past reposed · Past participle reposed · -ing form reposing
Verb forms
- Base form
- repose
- He/she/it
- reposes
- Past
- reposed
- Past participle
- reposed
- -ing form
- reposing
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Through empty heaven without repose;
There was only this blow wanting.” Then he said aloud, “My dear friend, your attack has, perhaps, fatigued you; had you not better repose awhile?
All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have anniversary masses said for the repose of his soul, and that I would draw up a genealogical tree and history of his house.
‘No,’ was the old man’s reply, ‘I will not leave this house, for my poor dear boy loves me better than anything in the world; and if he gets out of prison he will come and see me the first thing, and what would he think if I did not wait here for him?’ I heard all this from the window, for I was anxious that Mercédès should persuade the old man to accompany her, for his footsteps over my head night and day did not leave me a moment’s repose.”
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