单词 | unquietness |
释义 | unquietnessn. 1. Trouble, discord, or disturbance; unrest; strife. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] unfritheOE unpeacea1325 unresta1382 hurling1387 tumult1412 hurlc1440 hurly-burlyc1440 unquietness?c1450 unpeaceableness?c1475 estoure1481 broilery1521 broiling1523 turmoil1526 brulyie1531 unquiet1551 troublesomeness1561 disrest1567 turbulence1598 hurly1600 turbulency1607 inquieta1684 brulyiement1718 agitation1769 dispeace1825 fudder1871 push and shove1895 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] winOE torpelness?c1225 disturbance1297 workc1325 disturblingc1330 farec1330 frapec1330 disturbing1340 troublingc1340 blunderc1375 unresta1382 hurling1387 perturbationc1400 turbationc1400 rumblec1405 roara1413 rumourc1425 sturblance1435 troublec1435 stroublance1439 hurlc1440 hurly-burlyc1440 ruffling1440 stourc1440 rumblingc1450 sturbancec1450 unquietness?c1450 conturbationc1470 ruption1483 stir1487 wanrufe?a1505 rangat?a1513 business1514 turmoil1526 blommera1529 blunderinga1529 disturbation1529 bruyllie1535 garboil1543 bruslery1546 agitation1547 frayment1549 turmoiling1550 whirl1552 confusion1555 troublesomeness1561 rule1567 rummage1575 rabble1579 tumult1580 hurlement1585 rabblement1590 disturb1595 welter1596 coil1599 hurly1600 hurry1600 commotion1616 remotion1622 obturbation1623 stirrance1623 tumultuation1631 commoving1647 roiling1647 spudder1650 suffle1650 dissettlement1654 perturbancy1654 fermentationa1661 dissettledness1664 ferment1672 roil1690 hurry-scurry1753 vortex1761 rumpus1768 widdle1789 gilravagea1796 potheration1797 moil1824 festerment1833 burly1835 fidge1886 static1923 comess1944 frammis1946 bassa-bassa1956 ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 385 To suche as may not suffer such unquyetnes, schal be purueyd a nother place, wher they may slepe withoute unrestyng of other. ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. G.vi If thou be a forayner, dwellyng in a strange Cytie Medle with none office,..Lest by moche medlyng, thou wyn vnquyetnesse. 1534 W. Turner tr. J. von Watt Of Olde God & Newe To Rdr. sig. Aj In this greate unquietnes of comen weales. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxvi The state of the prouince..tendeth to greate vnquyetnes. 1603 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 48 Tumultuous behaviour..whereby great unquietness did grow. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 262 I hope there will be nothing to disturbe ye peace there, or bring any unquietnesse here. 1701 F. Atterbury Additions to 1st Ed. Rights Eng. Convocation App. 15 Much Discord, Variance and Debate hath risen among your Graces Subjects Spiritual and Temporal,..to the great Unquietness and Breach of the Peace within your Graces Catholick Realm. 1790 World 3 Aug. Napper Tandy and Handy Pemberton still keep Dublin in a state of unquietness. 1828 S. Carolina State Gaz. 8 Mar. Love came, and it was a bed of unquietness. 1860 S. Wilberforce Addr. Ordination 217 This evil of unquietness, religious strife, and discord. 1958 Amer. Hist. Rev. 63 974 Scandinavia, often considered a ‘quiet corner’ of Europe, has had its periods of unquietness. 1997 P. K. Jamison in C. R. Dills & A. J. Romiszowski Instructional Devel. Paradigms v. 82 While postmodernism may be criticized.., it is one approach that is highly reflective of the unquietness of late industrial society. 2. The condition of being anxious, disturbed, or mentally disquieted. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [noun] stirringc888 maleasea1300 uneasea1300 diseasec1330 perturbationa1382 unrestfulnessc1384 disturbancea1387 unroc1390 distroublancea1400 perturbancec1425 unquietnessc1460 inquietation1461 conturbationc1470 unheart's-ease1470 distroubling1487 wanease15.. inquietness?1504 unrufe1508 sturt1513 pertroublancea1522 inquieting1527 unquieting1548 turmoiling1550 unquiet1551 agitation?1555 storm1569 wanrest1570 discountenance1577 float1579 disquiet1581 brangling1584 diseasefulnessa1586 restlessness1597 hurry1600 disturbancy1603 disquietment1606 disordera1616 laruma1616 uneasinessa1616 diseasementa1617 discomposture1622 discomposition1624 whirr1628 discomposednessa1631 discomposure1632 pother1638 incomposedness1653 inquietude1658 uneasefulness1661 toss1666 disquietednessa1680 intranquillitya1699 disquietude1709 bosom-broil1742 discomfort1779 rufflement1806 feeze1825 uncomfortableness1828 discomforture1832 astasia1839 dysphoria1842 purr1842 peacelessness1852 palaver1899 perturbment1901 heebie-jeebies1923 wahala1966 agita1979 c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 67 (MED) Oure lord wille deliuere þe from alle vnquietenesse of hert and make þi consciens a peesable dwelling place of rightwisnes. 1528 T. Wyatt tr. Plutarch Quyete of Mynde sig. b.viiv The playntfull vnquietnesse of the minde. 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Inquies,..care, vnquietnesse,..lacke of reste. 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. vi. f. 110v With a bashed countenaunce (wel declaring the vnquietnes of his minde). 1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 243 To the great hindrance..& vnquietnes of the church of God. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 19 My unquietnesse would have continued still, if you had not taken the paines to calme it. 1649 T. Forde Lusus Fortunæ 93 Seeking rest in it's unquietnesse, but finding none. 1683 Apol. Protestants France vi. 93 Her great unquietness of Spirit. 1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. viii. 469 Being overprest with a Load of Grief and Guilt, he resolv'd to put an End to his Unquietness. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. vii. 156 The first impulse I felt, was that I would no longer suffer the unquietness and anxiety the sight of him produced in me. 1855 C. Kingsley Sir W. Raleigh in Misc. (1860) I. 54 The Queen's continual unquietness will grow to contentment. 1929 N. Arvin Hawthorne iv. 112 He would attack the woodpile in the hope that active exercise would still his inward unquietness. 1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) v. 191 An unquietness came upon him. He looked closer at them and could not discover the face of her whom he loved. 2011 R. Bootle Trouble with Markets (rev. ed.) iv. 89 It is not just the threat to their material livelihoods that worries people, but the sense of all-consuming, never-stopping, uncaring change, which brings instability of structures and unquietness of mind. 3. a. The condition or fact of being restless or turbulent in conduct or character. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [noun] rebelnessa1387 unquietness1524 rebelliousness1537 chafe1869 1524 tr. J. de Bourbon Begynnynge & Foundacyon Holy Hospytall sig. D.ii Oftentymes he put hymselfe ferder in the prease than neded, for the vnquyetnesse of his persone. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bijv Isopes frogges to whom for theyr vnquietnesse, Iupiter sent a hearon. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 160 The unquietnesse of some of the English brought the King to some thoughts of arbitrary rule. 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 19 He cannot be denyed to be a great motive of the Peoples unquietness. 1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 188 Men's unquietness and wavering in their principles. 1770 J. Hanway Advice from Farmer to his Daughter I. Ep. Ded. p. viii We frequently act as if jealousy and unquietness were her peculiar characteristics. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned 116 The unquietness and agitation of man's character. 1850 H. Greeley Hints Toward Reforms v. 158 Our unquietness, our ant-hill bustle, is the severest criticism on our present intellectual condition and efforts. 1904 Musical Standard 19 Nov. 327/1 The first movement..is, owing to its constant changes of time and rhythm, somewhat fidgetty and distinctly modern in its unquietness. 1957 Social Res. 24 158 The consistent pattern in Hamilton's character was one of outer unquietness and inner disharmony. 2013 R. Stone Death of Black-haired Girl vi. 59 Maud's youth, unquietness, intelligence, passion and lack of judgment were irresistible to him. b. Physical restlessness. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > restlessness > [noun] unrestfulnessc1384 unquietness1528 restlessness1597 unstillness1846 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. Bv To moche meate taken at nyght causeth and ingendreth gnawynge and payne in the bealye, vnquietnes, let of naturall rest, and other grefes. 1670 J. Evelyn 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. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 116 I was sitting up in the bed, the cloaths of which were all tost, or roll'd off, by the unquietness of our motions. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. i An unquietness at the ends of her shoes, betraying the restlessness of the digits therein contained. 1927 Times 16 June 19/5 Many terns nest on islets so low and slight that they seem mere rafts afloat on the sea's unquietness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [noun] > cause of unquietnessc1530 disquieter1564 perturbation1600 upcast1823 c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Hij v Whan thou woldest slepe..Than is theyr musyke to the vnquyetnes. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xix. 340 Some are troubled with one vnquietnes & som with another. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 25 If hee have no other unquietnesse but what he is like to have from me. 1673 P. A. tr. Reuniting of Christianity 229 Seeing themselves delivered from all those unquietnesses, they would acquit themselves of their Charge with much more Joy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?c1450 |
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