Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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To maintain, withstand. 1231/1226 Reserving that but just to prove / Another Date of Thee

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To sink to the bottom of liquors (or fluids); to settle; subside. 1400/1433 That water [in a well] lives so far . . . Residing in a jar … Like looking every time you please / In an Abyss's face! residence (-s), n. [Fr. < L. re- + sedēre, sit.]

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Reject; refuse; surrender; abandon; give up; relinquish for the sake of being faithful. 1340/1377 Temptation is the Friend / Repugnantly resigned / At last.

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To escape from; avoid capture. 979/844 The Deer attracts no further / Than it resists – the Hound resistless, adj. [see resist, v.] Helpless; incapable of putting up a fight. 515/653 Its Individual Doom / Possess each separate Consciousness – / August – Absorbed – Numb [resistless] resituate (-d), v. [Late L. situāre < L. situs, site.] Place in another location; relocate, move. 1033/988 He – sovereign as the Sun / Resituated in the West resolute (-r), adj. [L.] Having a firm conviction; determined; staid; stable; fixed; steady; constant in pursuing a purpose. 176/167 If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be! resonance, n. [OFr resonance < L. resonantia, echo < resonare, to resound.]

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Quiet; unobtrusive; not wanting to disturb. 93/72 The crowd respectful grew respite (-s), n. [OFr respit < L. respect-us, respect.]

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Death; the repose of the grave. 153/166 Dust is the only Secret / Death, the only One / You cannot find out all about / In his “native town.” … Bold as a Brigand! / Stiller than a Fleet! / Builds, like a Bird, too! / Christ robs the Nest / Robin after Robin / Smuggled to Rest!

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Remainder; balance; part that is left to be gone through. 174/165 The rest of life – to see

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To be tranquil. 718/881 To rest would be / A privilege of Hurricane

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To start anew; begin again. 1669/1714 In snow thou comest – / Thou shalt go with the resuming ground, resumption, n. [Fr. or L., see resume.] The act of resuming, taking back, or taking again, as of life or friendship; [fig.] resurrection. 175/165 On Resumption Morn, / Will not cry with joy “Pompeii”! resurgam, v. [L.] A Latin-sounding made-up word meant to satirize Latin-speaking “scientists;” perhaps contains the sense of Latin surgere to rise, thus meaning “rise again.” 70/117 A “Savant” passing by / Murmured “Resurgam” – “Centipede”! resurrection (-s), n. [OFr resurrcciun or late L. resurrectiōn-em < resurgěre, to resurge.]

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Spring; the rebirth or coming back to life of Nature in Spring. 74/137 How nonchalant the Hedge! / As if the “Resurrection” / Were nothing very strange! retain, v. [OFr retenir < re- + tenir, to hold.]

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To be slow; to be lethargic. 604/512 As Flavors – cheer Retarded Guests retarded, verbal adj. [see retard, v.] Delayed; slow; late. 604/512 As Flavors – cheer Retarded Guests reticence, n. [Fr. reticence or L. reticentia < reticēre, to keep silence.] Concealment by silence; shyness, quietness; wish to remain in the background. 778/879 Match me the Silver Reticence – / Match me the Solid Calm reticent, adj. [L. reticent-em, pres. pple of reticere, re- + tacere, to be silent.]

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To go from company or from a public place into privacy; to go to bed. 716/495 The Lady of the Occident / Retired without a care

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Revisit; leave and then come back. 59/145 The Angel begged permission / – to return

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Homecoming; state of having come back. 1657/1734 Unconscious our returning / But discover it no more

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Act(s) of disclosure. 552/669 Sunset … Amber Revelation … Omnipotence' inspection / Of Our inferior face

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Prologue; final chapter; [fig.] end; death; closure. 1115/1142 Posterior, prophetic, / Has simultaneous come … The Revelations of the Book / Whose Genesis was June. revelry, n. [see revel, v.]

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Sorrow; grief; depression. 799/854 To be assisted of Reverse / One must Reverse have bore

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Overcome; resolve; overthrow; [fig.] master; conquer; defeat; vanquish; [word play on “re-versed”] edit; rewrite; revise; write again in verse; convert into poetry. 550/666 is this Death's experiment – / Reversed – in Victory?

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Examine the state of something. 666/752 Sunset – reviews her Sapphire Regiment – reviewing, n. [see review, v.] Re-examination or judgement. 1709/1713 In heavenly reviewing revile (-d), v. [OFr reviler < re- + vil, vile.] Reproach. 753/793 As tongues of Diamond had reviled revisit (-ing), v. [Fr. revisiter.]

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Spirit; breath of life; [fig.] joy; inspiration; spirituality; vitality; divine nature; Holy Spirit; gift of the Holy Ghost; fruit of the Spirit (see Galatians 5:22). 383/645 The Soul achieves … Who hath the Ample Rhine / Within his Closet

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Enigma; paradox; conundrum; test of veracity; trial of faith; [word play] sieve; screen; mesh; filter; instrument for straining out impurities. 501/373 through a Riddle, at the last – / Sagacity, must go

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Sail. 1656/1721 What Buccaneer would ride / Without a surety from the Wind ridge, n. [OE hrycg.]

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Hull; outer shell; [Fig.] corpse; lifeless body. 899/1073 Herein a Blossom lies – / A Sepulchre, between … 'tis but a Rind ring (-s), n. [OE hring.]

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Place for children to play. 712/479 at recess – in the ring

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Tumult; chaos; uproar; brawl; upheaval; [fig.] rapid pulse; heart fluttering with emotion. 1745/1763 The riot given at the first / Is authorized as peace rip, n. [origin obscure.]