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unquiet /ʌnˈkwʌɪət /adjective1Unable to be still; restless: poor Amy’s unquiet spirit...- The sea itself seemed to resist clarity as much as complete stillness, as though its heart were restless, unquiet, pitted by its very nature against all that was unchanging.
- Are unquiet spirits returning from the grave to haunt the living, screwing up your picnic plans?
- So, our community honors our blessed ancestors; those people summon up the evil spirits of the unquiet dead.
1.1Uneasy; anxious: an unquiet mind...- He was a poet of the heart, of failure, of doubt, of ‘the unquiet mind, the emptiness within,’ someone who revelled in rodent-like explorations of love.
- Missives from Fox's unquiet mind, as she struggles to meet the intelligentsia's high standards for motherhood.
- It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Harris' theoretical commitments are designed to explain away a feminine side that perhaps even today troubles an unquiet virility.
Derivativesunquietly adverb ...- The general effect was of something you might see occurring unquietly in the branches of a tree.
- Peiji, who made his way to Taiwan with the retreating KMT, lives very unquietly in neon-struck Taipei.
- At 53, Mai is lying on a bed in Dublin's Jersey Street Hospital, unquietly expiring from liver cancer.
unquietness noun ...- Augustine would have understood this very well: it is an instance of yearning, of the heart's unquietness until it finds the peace given by explicit knowledge of the God of Abraham.
- A feeling of unquietness and fear was now in the air, an almost tangible tension.
- Otherwise, we will be born again and we will be subject to the constant unquietness of the mind again.
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