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单词 unquietude
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unquietuden.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈkwʌɪᵻtjuːd/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈkwʌɪᵻtʃuːd/, /(ˌ)ʌŋˈkwʌɪᵻtjuːd/, /(ˌ)ʌŋˈkwʌɪᵻtʃuːd/, U.S. /ˌənˈkwaɪəˌt(j)ud/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix1, quietude n.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + quietude n., after French inquiétude and post-classical Latin inquietudo inquietude n. Compare earlier inquietude n.
The state or condition of being unquiet; disquiet, restlessness.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun]
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disturbance1297
perturbingc1395
motiona1398
stirrage1513
turmoil1526
disquietness1535
buskling1546
jumbling1562
agitation1569
working1575
tumult1580
commotion1592
emotion1594
turbulence1598
bransle1603
pother1603
tumultuousnessa1617
unevennessa1637
unquietudea1639
disquietal1642
tumbling1660
disquietude1709
rouse1764
maelstrom1834
peacelessness1852
stir-up1900
a1639 H. Wotton Philos. Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 318 That a rod or barre of iron..will bewray a kind of unquietude and discontentment till it attain the former position.
1653 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes I. i. iii. 119 So very much was I possessed, Sir, with this kinde of unquietude [Fr. inquietude], that I could not hide it from Amestris.
1736 tr. T.-S. Gueullette Mogul Tales II. lvi. 73 She..retired at last over-charged with Grief, and left me under an Unquietude, which Words can never express.
1845 Fraser's Mag. May 615/2 Now, if the operation, thus prescribed, be an antidote to anger, it must be efficient in other cases of mental unquietude.
1899 F. Norris McTeague xvi. 303 It was a month of the greatest anxiety and unquietude for Trina.
1924 Jrnl. Illinois State Hist. Soc. 17 131 The unquietude was more or less settled by the unofficial reports that we would leave on the twenty-ninth.
1993 L. E. Wallace et al. tr. R. Rey Hist. Pain v. 90 He needs to be spurred on by desire, i.e. from lack and need, or even anxiety (‘unquietude’ or, in the etymological sense, lack of rest).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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