Meaning of Quietus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
   dated, uncountable, usually
2. Death.
   dated, figuratively, uncountable, usually
3. Final settlement (e.g., of a debt).
   dated, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Olive's specific terrors and dangers had by this time very much blown over; Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.”

“When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?”

“After a good deal of firing, and lying in wait - for every time he heard a shot down he'd go, and on coming to the surface, would only expose about two or three inches of his nose to fire at - we managed to give him his quietus.”

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