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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
composure
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
regain your composure (=become calm again)
▪ He paused for a few moments to regain his composure.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
keep
▪ After relating the bare facts of the suicide decades later, Dan looked away, shuddering to keep his composure.
lose
▪ De Gaulle, however, did not lose his composure.
▪ Gwendolen loses her composure and huddles in terror.
▪ They lose their composure so easily.
▪ A good director of middle-brow comedy, he loses his composure when matters turn serious.
▪ Quakers didn't lose their composure after the break.
▪ And in the face of a challenge far greater than athletic competition, she never lost her composure.
maintain
▪ Marcos's widow Imelda broke down in tears but her daughters Imee and Irene maintained their composure.
▪ Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence.
▪ Little boys, in particular, are taught to suppress their tears and to maintain their composure at all costs.
▪ Barbara, as usual, seemed to be placing a premium on maintaining her composure.
▪ That I maintained my usual composure was to me a miracle, and once more we were on our way to the frontier.
▪ Men strove to maintain their composure.
▪ Remember to maintain composure in your behaviour, and to answer questions succinctly.
▪ I maintained my composure, but made plain that I thought this was a really stupid policy, and left.
recover
▪ Not until the final quarter did the home side recover their composure, by which time it was way too late.
▪ He began to recover his composure.
regain
▪ She was trying desperately to regain her composure.
▪ Freed from the stones' strange attraction to its parts, H-5 regained its composure and lived up to expectations.
▪ Glenn Hoddle's Swindon regained their composure as County lost theirs.
▪ By the time he regains his composure and manages to return home, he realizes that he has thrown away his life.
▪ He looked stunned, almost in a trance, but he soon regained his composure.
▪ Slowly a sense of her own power made itself clear to her, and she regained her composure.
▪ She looked out of the car window, struggling to regain her composure.
▪ To regain her composure, she opened the wine bottle in the kitchen and took a sip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gone was the vagueness, gone the composure.
▪ He spoke without much prompting and I was encouraged by his composure.
▪ Her rickety composure had nothing whatever to do with him.
▪ Its owners showed far less composure, and streamed towards us from all sides.
▪ She was trying desperately to regain her composure.
▪ Slowly a sense of her own power made itself clear to her, and she regained her composure.
▪ Wagner remembered that Tuesday with quiet composure, neither tearful nor vengeful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Composure

Composure \Com*po"sure\, n. [From Compose.]

  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. [Obs.]

    Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
    --Evelyn.

  2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. [Obs.]

    Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
    --Woodward.

  3. Frame; make; temperament. [Obs.]

    His composure must be rare indeed Whom these things can not blemish.
    --Shak.

  4. A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose. ``We seek peace and composure.''
    --Milton.

    When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
    --I. Watts.

  5. A combination; a union; a bond. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
composure

c.1600, "composition" (also, in early use, with many senses now given to compound), from compose + -ure. Sense of "tranquility, calmness" is first recorded 1660s, from composed "calm" (1620s). For sense, compare colloquial to fall apart "to lose one's composure."

Wiktionary
composure

n. Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.

WordNet
composure

n. steadiness of mind under stress; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity" [syn: calm, calmness, equanimity] [ant: discomposure]

Wikipedia
Composure (album)

Composure is the first full-length album by Waking Ashland, released on May 10, 2005 by Tooth & Nail Records.

Composure

Composure is a measure of psychological stability and may refer to:

Usage examples of "composure".

Only Abel kept his composure and calmly imposed silence on his people again.

I, however, spoke to her quietly of indifferent things, and recovering her composure she answered me, speaking of her gloves, which she was folding on the pier-table.

Nevertheless, it was never the existence of atheists, any more than Arabs or Aristotelian pagans, that disturbed the extraordinary controversial composure of Thomas Aquinas.

Associated with him in the battles of the Chickahominy, and to the end, was the able and resolute Longstreet--an officer of low and powerful stature, with a heavy, brown beard reaching to his breast, a manner marked by unalterable composure, and a countenance whose expression of phlegmatic tranquillity never varied in the hottest hours of battle.

Steve knew that the time would soon come when he would lose Bids and faced it with grim composure.

Our poor laugher having recovered his composure, Casanova, who had remained very serious, invited me to dinner for the next day with my young friend Paul Gennaro, who had already become my alter ego.

Blake took a chair opposite and watched as the clubman gradually regained his composure.

The miscarriage of the French before Coni affected Louvois, the minister of Louis, so deeply, that he could not help shedding tears when he communicated the event to his master, who told him with great composure that he was spoiled by good fortune.

General Joseph Fecondo struggles to maintain his composure as he prays with his son, Adam, and the two base commanders at Elmendorf and Eielson Air Force Bases in Alaska.

Inwardly, Jessy recoiled from it, but outwardly she maintained a calm composure.

He greeted her with his cool civility, and she replied with tolerable composure, thanking him for his kind offices, in Leicestershire, towards her goddaughter.

I can no longer endure the lost look in the eye, the composure too easily shattered, the waning hope.

Regaining my composure I saw that two of the younger boys had run after my suitcase and were lugging it up the path toward the house.

Ayatollah Shammar called for order after giving Bishop Ralphy Bruce sufficient time to regain his composure.

Frankly, it is not a bit nice for a man of position to walk down a respectable thoroughfare, nodding to his acquaintances with dignified composure, when a backward glance has disclosed his kangaroo dog dawdling along at his heels, lithe, svelte and spirituelle, with about ten pounds of stolen sausages hanging festooned from his mouth, and tripping him up from time to time.