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The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace. A general peace and serenity newly succeeded a general trouble. Sir W. Temple.

The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.

To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver. And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep. Pope.

Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years. Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad. Denham.

The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity. Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages. J. A. Symonds.

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper. To fall with dignity, with temper rise. Pope. Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers. B. Jonson.

Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness. [R.] "A gentleman of all temperance." Shak. He calmed his wrath with goodly temperance. Spenser.

The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.

Newman. The rapid . . . whirl of things here below interrupt not the inviolable rest and calmness of the noble beings above. South.