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Easiness

noun
1.
A feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry.  Synonym: relaxation.
2.
Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.  Synonyms: ease, simpleness, simplicity.  "They put it into containers for ease of transportation" , "The very easiness of the deed held her back"
3.
The quality of being easy in behavior or style.  "A natural easiness of manner"






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"Easiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fellows appear among us every Day in the critical Juncture of their Transmigration, just when they have so much of the Man left as to be known by their Names, and enough of the Devil taken up to settle their Characters? This Easiness of the Devil's access to these People, and the great Convenience it is to him in his general Business, is a Proof to me that he has no more Occasion of Diviners, Magicians, Sorcerers, and whatever else we ...
— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe

... Pope tells us himself, cost much attention and labour; and, from the easiness that appears in it, one would be apt to think ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith

... troop turned from the troughs and ran—anywhere and everywhere—like spilled quicksilver. It was a most extraordinary spectacle, for men and horses were in all stages of easiness, and the carbine-buckets flopping against their sides urged the horses on. Men were shouting and cursing, and trying to pull clear of the Band which was being chased by the Drum-Horse whose rider had fallen forward and seemed to be ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... Dale would have heard it. Her own mind was full of it, and though she dreaded to speak of it, yet she could not be silent. Miss Dale, who understood much of this, endeavoured to talk her friend into easiness; but she feared to begin upon the one subject, and before the drive was over they were, both of them, too cold for much conversation. "There's mamma," said Miss Dale as they drove up, turning out of the ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope

... amazed! This insolence exceeds t'other; whoever has encouraged you to this assurance, presuming upon the easiness of my temper, has much deceived you, and ...
— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve


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