"pensiveness" meaning in English

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          "text": "We left quietly so as not to disturb the widow's pensiveness.",
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          "text": "Yet the employment seemed a pleasant one; her cheek was flushed with a clear, rich crimson—her face / \"Was like any fair lake that the morning is on, / When it breaks into dimples, and laughs in the sun.\" / And if, ever and anon, the brow was clouded by a shade of pensiveness, it was quickly dispelled by the consciousness of present happiness.",
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          "sense": "thoughtful or reflective state",
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          "word": "pensierosità"
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          "text": "Yet the employment seemed a pleasant one; her cheek was flushed with a clear, rich crimson—her face / \"Was like any fair lake that the morning is on, / When it breaks into dimples, and laughs in the sun.\" / And if, ever and anon, the brow was clouded by a shade of pensiveness, it was quickly dispelled by the consciousness of present happiness.",
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