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unˈquietness
[un-1 12, 5 b.]
1. A source of trouble or disquiet.
1514Barclay Egloges ii. (1570) B i b, When thou wouldest slepe.., Then is their musike to thee vnquietnes. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. 340 Some are troubled with one vnquietnes, and som with another. 1654R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II) 13 If he have no other unquietness but what he is like to have from me.
2. An unquiet condition or state of things; a state of trouble or discord.
1523[Coverdale] Old God & New (1534) A j, In this greate unquietnes of comen weales. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 216 The state of the prouince..tendeth to greate vnquyetnes. 1603in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 48 Tumultuous behaviour..whereby great unquietness did grow. 1674Essex Papers (Camden) 262, I hope there will be nothing to disturbe y⊇ peace there, or bring any unquietnesse here. 1860Bp. S. Wilberforce Addr. Cand. Ordination 217 This evil of unquietness, religious strife, and discord.
3. The condition or fact of being restless or turbulent in conduct.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 90 b, Treason, fraude,..periury, vnquyetnes, obduracion,..with suche other. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 53 Isopes frogges to whom for theyr vnquietnesse Iupiter sent a hearon. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lvi. 160 The unquietnesse of some of the English brought the King to some thoughts of arbitrary rule. 1681H. Nevile Plato Rediv. 19 He cannot be denyed to be a great motive of the Peoples unquietness. 1724Welton Chr. Faith & Pract. 188 Men's unquietness and wavering in their principles. 1829Lytton Disowned 116 The unquietness and agitation of man's character.
b. Physical restlessness.
1670Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) 24 Stubbed Oak is the fittest Timber for the Case of a Sider-Mill..as best enduring the unquietnesse of a ponderous Rolling-stone. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. i, An unquietness at the ends of her shoes, betraying the restlessness of the digits therein contained.
4. The condition of being disquieted or disturbed.
1548Elyot, Inquies,..care, vnquietnesse,..lacke of reste. 1553Brende Q. Curtius vi. 110 b, With a bashed countenaunce (wel declaring the vnquietnes of his minde). 1589Cooper Admon. 243 To the great hindrance..& vnquietnes of the church of God. 1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. III. 19 My unquietnesse would have continued still, if you had not taken the paines to calme it. 1649T. Ford Lusus Fort. 93 Seeking rest in it's unquietnesse, but finding none. 1683Apol. Prot. France vi. 93 Her great unquietness of Spirit. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. iii. viii. 469 Being overprest with a Load of Grief and Guilt, he resolv'd to put an End to his Unquietness. a1806H. K. White Time 628 Time..Will waft him to repose..Far from the unquietness of life. 1855Kingsley Misc. (1859) I. 54 The Queen's continual unquietness will grow to contentment. |