[f. STILL v.1 + -ING2.] That makes still; quietening; calming.

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1635.  Sibbes, Serm. John xiv. 1 (1636), 35. Thus faith becomes a quieting and a stilling grace.

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1844.  Kinglake, Eöthen, ii. (1847), 18. More stilling than very silence.

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1873.  Miss Broughton, Nancy, III. 126. There is something so stilling in the far placidity of the high stars.

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1902.  E. C. M., in Academy, 22 March, 324/1.

        The feeling that seems to linger
  From winter gone away,
The touch like a stilling finger,
  The whisper, the sigh, that say.

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