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noun

Serenity n.

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

Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure. "I can not see how any men should ever transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity." Note: Serenity is given as a title to the members of certain princely families in Europe; as, Your Serenity.

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Etymology of 'Serenity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Serenity" Quotes from Famous Books

... road for the other carriage. She had calculated that she might make her entrance with better effect alone with her mother than in company with Morton and the Senator. It would have been worth the while of any one who had witnessed her troubles on that morning to watch the bland serenity and happy ease with which she entered the room. Her mother was fond of a prominent place but was quite contented on this occasion to play a second fiddle for her daughter. She had seen at a glance that Rufford Hall ...

— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope

... on, and all these bright colours subsided, and assumed a quieter tint, like young hopes softened down by time, or youthful features by degrees resolving into the calm and serenity of age. But they were scarcely less beautiful in their slow decline, than they had been in their prime; for nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy, ...

— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens

... tall and upright as a lily. Her lamp, which is seen at the entrance of her house, is one long stem illuminated by the flame. She, too, is like this lamp. Her emaciated body would be nothing without her ardent face. Her serenity can only come from work well done and confidence in the future. Lutetia, represented in this picture by Genevieve, is not anxious; yet she listens as if she might hear once more the threatening approach of Attila. It is because she knows that the barbarians may ...

— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux

... cast. From brow and heart fled all perturbation and once more into her eyes came their wonted serenity—with a tinge of exultation—while the strings sounded again, ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

... confidence in what the written and oral traditions of the Christian Church tell us about the Christ and his revelation. He says on this point: "What bliss, what abiding enjoyment of supreme and true good is offered us, what serenity, what a breath of eternity! How shall I describe it? It has been expressed, as far as it could be, by those great incomparable souls who we admit have beheld and still behold.... We reach a point at which we ...

— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner

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