Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tranquillity
IPA transcription: [tɹæŋkw'ɪlɪti]
Pronunciations of tranquillity
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: repose, quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility
    Meaning: a disposition free from stress or emotion
  • Synonyms: tranquillity, tranquility, quietness, quietude
    Meaning: a state of peace and quiet
  • Synonyms: tranquillity, tranquility, quiet
    Meaning: an untroubled state; free from disturbances
Usage examples
  • "We hoped to enjoy tranquillity after that madman Buckingham had left."
  • This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated epoch.
  • It needed all Jane's steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable tranquillity.
  • You must quit him!-his sight is baneful to your repose, his society is death to your future tranquillity!
  • He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is free from fear and free from sin, while he tastes the sweetness of drinking in the law.
  • That political freedom may compromise in its excesses the tranquillity, the property, the lives of individuals, is obvious to the narrowest and most unthinking minds.
  • She saw her husband led to execution, and, having given him from the window some token of remembrance, she waited with tranquillity till her own appointed hour should bring her to a like fate.
  • In this situation, surely the nation, governed by so virtuous a monarch, may for the present remain in tranquillity, and try whether it be not possible, by peaceful arts, to elude that danger with which it is pretended its liberties are still threatened.
  • Was it the strangely pellucid light that gave the effect, I wondered; and knew it was not, for as I scanned her covertly, there fell upon her face that shadow of inhuman tranquillity, of unearthly withdrawal which, I guessed, had more than anything else maddened Ventnor into his attack upon the Disk.
  • These powers are to be exercised only for certain specified objects; and the purposes, declared in the beginning of the deed or instrument of delegation, were "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Benjamin Franklin, License CC BY-SA 4.0