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AT PEACE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dead
Example:
our dear departed friend
Synonyms:
asleep; at peace; at rest; deceased; departed; gone
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Domain usage:
euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)
Context examples:
Then there came a gray friar, or minorite, with a good paunch upon him, walking slowly and looking about him with the air of a man who was at peace with himself and with all men.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Presently the fruit became round and firm, and she was glad and at peace; but when they were fully ripe she picked the berries and ate eagerly of them, and then she grew sad and ill.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He was becoming more morose, more uncompanionable, more solitary, more ferocious; while the dogs were learning more and more that it was better to be at peace with him than at war, and Grey Beaver was coming to prize him more greatly with the passage of each day.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I think the extremities require to be at peace before the stomach will conduct itself with vigour.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It's a lovely day, no prospect of rain, and you pride yourself on keeping promises, so be honorable, come and do your duty, and then be at peace for another six months.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Well, be it so; a deadly struggle would then assuredly take place, in which if he were victorious I should be at peace and his power over me be at an end.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
To be in the centre of such a circle, loved by so many, and more loved by all than she had ever been before; to feel affection without fear or restraint; to feel herself the equal of those who surrounded her; to be at peace from all mention of the Crawfords, safe from every look which could be fancied a reproach on their account.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He was busy, he was much in the open air, he did good; his face seemed to open and brighten, as if with an inward consciousness of service; and for more than two months, the doctor was at peace.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My brain was all in a whirl, and only that there came through all the multitude of horrors, the holy ray of light that my dear, dear Lucy was at last at peace, I do not think I could have borne it without making a scene.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
