Meaning of Unquietness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or condition of being unquiet; unease, restlessness.

archaic, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“[W]hat is he for a foole that betrothes himſelfe to vnquietneſſe?”

“He went hence but now, / And certainly in strange unquietness.”

“For as in the middest of the sea, though a man perceive no sound⟳ of that part of the water next him; yet he is well assured, that part contributes as much, to the Roaring of the Sea, as any other part, of the same quantity: so also, though wee perceive no great unquietnesse, in one, or two men; yet we may be well assured, that their singular Passions, are parts of the Seditious roaring of a troubled Nation.”

“If all be well within, nothing can hurt⟳ us from without: For from inordinate Love⟳, and vain Fears, comes all Unquietness of Spirit, and Distraction of Senses.”

“It vvas then broad day. I vvas sitting up in the bed, the cloaths of vvhich vvere all tossed, or rolled off, by the unquietness of our motions”

Fanny Hill

“Mr. Yates […] immediately gave Sir Thomas an account of what they had done and were doing, […] relating every thing with so blind an interest⟳ as made him not only totally unconscious of the uneasy movements of many of his friends as they sat, the change⟳ of countenance, the fidget, the hem! of unquietness, but prevented him even from seeing the expression of the face⟳ on which his own⟳ eyes were fixed— […]”

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