Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unquiet; agitation; excitement; uneasiness; restlessness.
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- noun The state or condition of being
unquiet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wrath, envy, trouble, and unquietness, and fear of death, and rigour, and strife, and such things come to both man and beast, but sevenfold to the ungodly.
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What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?
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So much motion, continues he (for he was very corpulent) — is so much unquietness; and so much of rest, by the same analogy, is so much of heaven.
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So much motion, continues he (for he was very corpulent) — is so much unquietness; and so much of rest, by the same analogy, is so much of heaven.
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'What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?' he asks his chief henchman, Borachio, who has brought him intelligence of an intended marriage.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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A place of quiet that suddenly seemed to hold a strange unquietness.
A Heritage of Stars Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1977
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The manners of the best servants often put to shame those of their employers, for their self-possession and complete knowledge of what they are and ought to be raises them above the unquietness of those who have a suspicion that they are not quite what might be expected of them.
The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart
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It tells a story of busy men, citizens from the hot street, who have come to spend a day in a country village, -- men of business, -- in short, of all unquietness; and no wonder that it gives such a startling scream, since it brings the noisy world into the midst of our slumberous peace.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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