Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DOWN'-SIT-TING
DOWN'RIGHT-LYDOWN'TROD, or DOWN'TROD-DEN
DOWN'-SIT-TING, n.
The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-rising. – Ps. cxxxix.
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