Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STAID'NESS
STAID'NESS, n.
Sobriety; gravity; steadiness; regularity; the opposite of wildness. If he sometimes appears too gay, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety of age be wanting. – Dryden.
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