SERENENESS
Se*rene"ness, n.
Defn: Serenity. Feltham.
SERENITUDE
Se*ren"i*tude, n.
Defn: Serenity. [Obs.]
SERENITY
Se*ren"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. serenuas: cf. F. sérénité.]
1. The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace. A general peace and serenity newly succeeded a general trouble. Sir W. Temple.
2. Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure. I can not see how any men should ever transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity. Locke.
Note: Serenity is given as a title to the members of certain princely families in Europe; as, Your Serenity.
SERF Serf, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. serus servant, slave; akin to servare to protect, preserve, observe, and perhaps originally, a client, a man under one's protection. Cf. Serve, v. t.]
Defn: A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia. In England, at least from the reign of Henry II, one only, and that the inferior species [of villeins], existed . . . But by the customs of France and Germany, persons in this abject state seem to have been called serfs, and distinguished from villeins, who were only bound to fixed payments and duties in respect of their lord, though, as it seems, without any legal redress if injured by him. Hallam.