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Sense: 1-2
Date: 1400-1500
Language: Old French
Origin: reposer, from Late Latin repausare, from pausare 'to stop'
Sense: 3
Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: reponere, from ponere 'to put'

repose

2 verb
     
repose2 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] formal or literary
1 if something reposes somewhere, it has been put there
2 if someone reposes somewhere, they rest there
3

repose your trust/hope etc in somebody

to trust someone to help you
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