composures

Noun

composure (countable and uncountable, plural composures)

1. Calmness of mind or temperament.
   • That all may see who hate us, how we seek
     Peace and composure […]1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

   Synonyms:

   coolness, self-possession, countenance, equanimity

2. (obsolete) The act of composing
   • […] Signʳ Pietro […] had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.1818, John Evelyn, Memoirs, edited by William Bray, London: Henry Colburn, 2nd edition, Volume I, entry for 10 March, 1685, p. 592
3. (obsolete) Something which is composed; a composition.
4. (obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
   • […] from the various Composures and Combinations of these Corpusoles together, happen all the Varieties of the Bodies formed out of them […]1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, London: Richard Wilkin, Part 5, p. 230
5. (obsolete) Frame; make; temperament.
   • […] his composure must be rare indeed
     Whom these things can not blemish […]c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
6. (obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.
   • […] their fraction is more our wish than their faction: but it was a strong composure a fool could disunite.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...