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Definition of Calmer
1. n. One who, or that which, makes calm.
Definition of Calmer
1. Adjective. (comparative of calm) ¹
2. Noun. A person or thing that calms. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calmer
1. calm [adj] - See also: calm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calmer
Literary usage of Calmer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... the start to a championship of the emotional side of every question which his
calmer contemporaries were inclined to consider from its reasonable side. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"The position of Germany, although calmer on the surface, is as difficult, as
embarrassing, as much in the " cleft stick,'1 as when we speculated upon it ..."
3. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... can inflict the mosquito bite, not deep, but stinging; — who wonders that the
serener and the calmer judgment allots " to patient continuance in well ..."
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