What does "composure" mean?
Composure: Orderly adjustment; disposition. [Obs.] Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. Woodward.
Additional senses
- 2.Frame; make; temperament. [Obs.] His composure must be rare indeed Whom these things can not blemish. Shak.
- 3.A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose. "We seek peace and composure." Milton. When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. I. Watts.
- 4.A combination; a union; a bond. [Obs.] Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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