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quietude|ˈkwaɪətjuːd|
[a. F. quiétude (c 1500) or ad. late L. quiētūdo, f. quiēt-us quiet a.]
= quietness; rest, calm, tranquillity.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 46 b/2 That parte requireth nothinge els then quietude. 1675Otway Alcibiades iii. i, How sweet a Quietude's in Fetters found. 1755J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 3 Love,..urged his bosom too vehemently, to suffer a moment's quietude or delay. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. v. 28 Philosophy has become another name for mental quietude. 1877‘H. A. Page’ De Quincey II. xvi. 29 The quietude of the Meadows..made them his favourite resorts. |