compassé

Dans l' exemple de la Servante du Seigneur il ne trouvait rien, à coup sur, de cet air compassé, misérable qu'inspirent des auteurs spirituels en vogue à son époque.
In the example of the handmaid of the Lord, he certainly found none of that stiff and pitiful attitude which inspired some of the spiritual writers who were in vogue in his day.
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