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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “QUIETUDE”

QUIETUDE n.
Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity. Shelley.
INQUIETUDE n.
Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude. Sir H. Wotton.
UNQUIETUDE n.
Uneasiness; inquietude.
ANXIOUS a.
Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.
DISCOMFORT n.
Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." M. Arnold. Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings. Bp. Hall.
DISCONTENT n.
Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Shak. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent. Hallam
DISCONTENTMENT n.
The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.
DISQUIETFUL a.
Producing inquietude or uneasiness. [R.] Barrow.
DISQUIETTUDE n.
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
IMPERTURBATION n.
Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.
INERTION n.
Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude. [R.] These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever. E. Darwin.
PAIN n.
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Chaucer. In rapture as in pain. Keble.
SPECULATE v.
remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude to the external regulations of society. Hawthorne.
UNEASINESS n.
The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety.
UNREST n.
Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude. Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! Chaucer. Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast Tennyson.
WORRY v.
To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries.