AT PEACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at peace mean? 

• AT PEACE (adjective)
  The adjective AT PEACE has 1 sense:

1. dead

  Familiarity information: AT PEACE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT PEACE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dead

Synonyms:

asleep; at peace; at rest; deceased; departed; gone

Context example:

our dear departed friend

Similar:

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

Domain usage:

euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)

 Context examples 

She was occasionally useful to all; she was perhaps as much at peace as any.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I took the hand she held out with a dignified, unbending air, and it was as calm in mine as if her breast had been at peace.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So I thought it out at the time, feeling the need for vindication and desiring to be at peace with my conscience.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I told them I was born in England, whence I came about five years ago, and then their country and ours were at peace.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Never (she used to say, with streaming tears, when she narrated that experience), never had she felt more at peace with all men or thought more kindly of the world.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Perpetual fretting at length threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is now at peace for ever.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He become so small—we ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a hairbreadth space at the tomb door.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Now do, brother, let her be at peace a while."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I take it as a good omen for the future and invite you to my wedding on the spot, answered Mr. Brooke, who felt at peace with all mankind, even his mischievous pupil.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had been too deeply concerned in the mischief to be soon at peace.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)