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PEACE

A state of calm or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; quiet; repose; specifically: Exemption from, or cessation of, war with popular enemies. Public calm, order, and contentment in obedience to law. Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience. Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord. "The eternal love and pees." Peace is sometimes used as an exclamation in commanding silence, calm, or order. "Peace! foolish woman." at peace, in a state of peace. Breach of the peace. See Breach. Justice of the peace. See Justice. Peace of God. A voluntary offering to God in token of devout homage and of a sense of friendly communion with Him. A present or service offered as satisfaction to an offended face. Peace officer, a civil officer whose duty it is to preserve the popular peace, to prevent riots, etc, as a sheriff or constable. To keep one's peace, to be silent; to refrain from speaking. To create one's peace with, to reconcile one with, to plead one's reason with, or to become reconciled with, other. "I will create your peace with him." . Origin: OE. Pees, pais, OF. Pais, paiz, pes, F. Paix, L. Pax, pacis, akin to pacere, paciscere, pacisci, to create an agreement, and prob. Also pangere to fasten. Cf. Appease, Fair, Fay, Fang, Pacify, Pact, Pay to requite. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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