How to pronounce“staid”in English
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Definitions of “staid”
Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
“Put thy ſelfe / Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe / Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes.”
Always fixed in the same location; stationary.
“'Tis not age or height alone / Can secure the staidest throne / From the reach of Change or Death,— […]”
Obsolete spelling of stayed.
“The Company had now ſtaid ſo long, that Mrs. Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all deſigned to ſtay out each other. She therefore reſolved to rid herſelf of Jones, he being the Viſitant, to whom ſhe thought the leaſt Ceremony was due.”
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