Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Calm; still; undisturbed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Calm; still.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
quiet (calm, still)
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This word, like many other adjectives in _-some_, is now less common than it was in Elizabethan English: many such adjectives are obsolete, _e. g._ laboursome, joysome, quietsome, etc. (see Trench's
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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