Definition of Tranquillities

1. Noun. (plural of tranquillity) ¹

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Definition of Tranquillities

1. tranquillity [n] - See also: tranquillity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tranquillities

tranquility
tranquilize
tranquilized
tranquilizer
tranquilizers
tranquilizes
tranquilizing
tranquilizingly
tranquiller
tranquillest
tranquillisation
tranquillise
tranquilliser
tranquillisers
tranquillising agent
tranquillities (current term)
tranquillity
tranquillityite
tranquillization
tranquillize
tranquillized
tranquillizer
tranquillizers
tranquillizes
tranquillizing
tranquillizingly
tranquilly
tranquilness
tranquilnesses

Literary usage of Tranquillities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Incomparable Siddons by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons (1909)
"There he left me; and I, in one of what I call my desperate tranquillities, which usually impress me under terrific circumstances, there completed my dress, ..."

2. The Garden of Asia: Impressions from Japan by Reginald John Farrer (1904)
"The boat glides forward ; no other word will express the silky softness with which the skiff passes as in a trance over the misty tranquillities of the bay, ..."

3. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... our tranquillities. What we magnify is magnificent, but, like to the Colossus, noble without, stuffed with rubbish and coarse metal within. ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"There he left me, and I, in one of what I call my desperate tranquillities which usually impress me under terrific circumstances, there completed my dress, ..."

5. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"thus matured and mellowed by a long lapse of years—there is something truly congenial in the quiet enjoyment of our early autumn, amid the tranquillities of ..."

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