placidness

Example Sentences

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At 16, Hamer left home, and over the course of the next 18 months, walked across Britain, honing the skills that make him a superlative mole catcher — invisibility and placidness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2019

The relative placidness of inbounds skiing is no match for the greater adventure of untamed terrain.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2012

Now anger is by nature at the farthest distance imaginable from complacency, and spleenishness from placidness, and animosity and turbulence from humanity and kindness.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

She went on in placidness from hour to hour, ruffled occasionally.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

He was of a most reverend aspect; his face thin and pale; but there was a divine placidness which inspired veneration, and expressed the most benevolent mind.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various