"sleep of the just" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsliːp əv ðə ˈdʒʌst/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈslip əv ðə ˈdʒʌst/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-sleep of the just.mp3
Rhymes: -ʌst Etymology: From the idea that people who act justly have no worries and so sleep well, while unjust people are concerned about the consequences of their actions and so sleep poorly. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} sleep of the just (uncountable)
  1. A deep and worry-free sleep. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Sleep Related terms: how can you sleep at night, sleep like a baby, sleep like a log, sleep like a rock, sleep like a top Translations (deep and worry-free sleep): 酣睡 (hānshuì) (Chinese Mandarin), 沉睡 (chénshuì) (Chinese Mandarin), sommeil du juste [masculine] (French), Schlaf der Gerechten [masculine] (German), Schlaf des Gerechten [masculine] (German), az igazak álma (Hungarian), codladh na bhfíréan [masculine] (Irish), sen sprawiedliwego class [inanimate, masculine] (Polish), sono dos justos [masculine] (Portuguese), сном пра́ведника (snom právednika) [masculine] (Russian), el sueño de los justos [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-sleep_of_the_just-en-noun-t555c85J Disambiguation of Sleep: 100 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of 'deep and worry-free sleep': 100 0
  2. (euphemistic, dated) A peaceful death or burial. Tags: dated, euphemistic, uncountable Categories (topical): Burial, Death Synonyms: death Translations (peaceful death or burial): son del just [masculine] (Catalan), 安息 (ānxī) (Chinese Mandarin), 長眠 (Chinese Mandarin), 长眠 (chángmián) (Chinese Mandarin), 入土為安 (Chinese Mandarin), 入土为安 (rùtǔwéi'ān) (Chinese Mandarin), ikuinen uni (Finnish), ewige Ruhe [feminine] (German), Heimgang [masculine] (German), Abberufung [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-sleep_of_the_just-en-noun-FC8bU-Gs Disambiguation of Burial: 0 100 Disambiguation of Death: 1 99 Categories (other): English euphemisms Disambiguation of 'peaceful death or burial': 0 100
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          "text": "He slept the sleep of the just, with just that gentle whisper of a snore which Aristotle hints at to prove that virtue being, as she must be, in the mean, doth in the neutral third of life maintain a middle course between loud snore and silent slumber.",
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          "text": "After the gentleman and Senator [Mariano Jesús] Cuenco interpellated me, I knew already that my bill was hopeless. That is why I presented that bill on February 4th, but it slept the sleep of the just in the Committee on Education.",
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          "ref": "1999, Stephen King, “Hearts in Atlantis”, in Hearts in Atlantis, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published November 2017, →ISBN, chapter 14, page 386:",
          "text": "Lennie Doria tapped on my door a couple of nights later while I was cramming (Nate had been in the rack for an hour or more, sleeping the sleep of the just and the caught-up) and asked me if I had any interest in writing a paper about Crispus Atticus.",
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          "text": "All night long, she tossed and turned in bed, envious of Nennella, who shared the same room but didn't question things very deeply. The maid slept the sleep of the just, and a faint whistling came from her nose, like babies when they have a slight cold.",
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          "text": "Towards the close of the day (the 8th) the holy father [Pope Leo XII], who had never lost his recollection, fell into a profound lethargy, from which he did not recover till at nine in the morning of the 10th [of February, 1829], to fall into the sleep of the just.",
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          "text": "He [Albert Vernon Randall] was called to his final reward in January, 1883, after a long and useful life, and with his faithful wife, Sarah (Pettit) Randall, who was born May 9, 1809, in Loudoun County, Virginia, now sleeps the sleep of the just in the beautiful cemetery at Shebyville.",
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          "ref": "1999, Stephen King, “Hearts in Atlantis”, in Hearts in Atlantis, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published November 2017, →ISBN, chapter 14, page 386:",
          "text": "Lennie Doria tapped on my door a couple of nights later while I was cramming (Nate had been in the rack for an hour or more, sleeping the sleep of the just and the caught-up) and asked me if I had any interest in writing a paper about Crispus Atticus.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 September, Vito Bruschini, chapter 25, in Anne Milano Appel, transl., The Prince, New York, N.Y.: Atria Paperback, →ISBN, page 172:",
          "text": "All night long, she tossed and turned in bed, envious of Nennella, who shared the same room but didn't question things very deeply. The maid slept the sleep of the just, and a faint whistling came from her nose, like babies when they have a slight cold.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A deep and worry-free sleep."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deep",
          "deep#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "worry-free",
          "worry-free"
        ],
        [
          "sleep",
          "sleep#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1829 April 18, “Death of Pope Leo XII”, in H[ezekiah] Niles & son, editors, Niles’ Weekly Register, volume XII, number 8 (Third Series; volume XXXVI, issue 918 overall), Baltimore, Md.: H[ezekiah] Niles & Son […], →OCLC, page 121, column 2:",
          "text": "Towards the close of the day (the 8th) the holy father [Pope Leo XII], who had never lost his recollection, fell into a profound lethargy, from which he did not recover till at nine in the morning of the 10th [of February, 1829], to fall into the sleep of the just.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1830 October–December, [Georges] Cuvier, “Biographical Memoir of M. Duhamel”, in Robert Jameson, editor, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, volume XIX, Edinburgh: […] Adam Black, […]; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, →OCLC, page 14:",
          "text": "At length he [Jean-Pierre-François Guillot-Duhamel] slept the sleep of the just, on the 19th February 1816, aged somewhat less than 86 years old.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Edward H. Chadwick, “Albert Vernon Randall”, in Chadwick’s History of Shelby County, Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.: B. F. Bowen & Company, →OCLC, page 484:",
          "text": "He [Albert Vernon Randall] was called to his final reward in January, 1883, after a long and useful life, and with his faithful wife, Sarah (Pettit) Randall, who was born May 9, 1809, in Loudoun County, Virginia, now sleeps the sleep of the just in the beautiful cemetery at Shebyville.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A peaceful death or burial."
      ],
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        [
          "peaceful",
          "peaceful"
        ],
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ],
        [
          "burial",
          "burial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(euphemistic, dated) A peaceful death or burial."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "death"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "euphemistic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsliːp əv ðə ˈdʒʌst/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈslip əv ðə ˈdʒʌst/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌst"
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hānshuì",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "word": "酣睡"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chénshuì",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "word": "沉睡"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "vanhurskaan uni (in partitive singular with a verb)",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sommeil du juste"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlaf der Gerechten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlaf des Gerechten"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "word": "az igazak álma"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "codladh na bhfíréan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "tags": [
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sen sprawiedliwego class"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sono dos justos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "snom právednika",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сном пра́ведника"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "deep and worry-free sleep",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "el sueño de los justos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "son del just"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ānxī",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "word": "安息"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "word": "長眠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chángmián",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "word": "长眠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "word": "入土為安"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "rùtǔwéi'ān",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "word": "入土为安"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "word": "ikuinen uni"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ewige Ruhe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Heimgang"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "peaceful death or burial",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Abberufung"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sleep of the just"
}

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