Word Meanings - DISQUIETNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.

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• QUIETER
  One who, or that which, quiets.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• QUIET
  p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They
• UNEASINESS
  1. The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety. 2. The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road. Bp. Burnet.
• QUIETISM
  The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace
• QUIETSOME
  Calm; still. Spenser.
• QUIETLY
  1. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. 2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. 3. Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion;
• QUIETISTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
• QUIETAGE
  Quietness. Spenser.
• QUIETUS
  Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
• HOOKER
  1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
• QUIETUDE
  Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity. Shelley.
• QUIETNESS
  The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness. I would have peace and quietness. Shak.
• QUIETIST
  One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• DISQUIETOUS
  Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.
• INQUIETATION
  Disturbance. Sir T. Elyot.
• INQUIET
  To disquiet. Joye.
• DISQUIETNESS
  Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.
• DISQUIETFUL
  Producing inquietude or uneasiness. Barrow.
• DISQUIETER
  One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.
• DISQUIET
  Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy. Shak.
• INQUIETNESS
  Unquietness. Joye.