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disquietude

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  1. feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

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  • Even worse, the disquietude grows when we learn of the unavoidability of certain occurrences, such as our Earth becoming engulfed by a dying sun, or a massive comet colliding head-on with catastrophic consequences.
  • But I have another source of disquietude which is unaccompanied with any alleviating circumstances. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian
  • But another and different kind of disquietude kept them waking too. Dombey and Son
  • They are under a frightful apprehension of guilt and wrath, that they cannot enjoy themselves; when they seem settled they are in disquietude, when they seem merry they are in heaviness; like Cain, who always dwelt in the land of shaking. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • My husband and I looked at each other till we burst into tears, and our children observing our disquietude began to cry bitterly. Five Best: Susan J. Matt
  • There were even some among them who did not dance at all, but only felt an involuntary impulse to allay the internal sense of disquietude, which is the usual forerunner of an attack of this kind, by laughter, and quick walking carried to the extent of producing fatigue. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
  • This many people liking something completely secular creates disquietude among the pew-cramming masses.
  • The rubicund moon-head goes wagging; darker beams the copper visage, like unscoured copper; in the glazed eye is disquietude; he rolls uneasy in his seat, as if he meant something. The French Revolution
  • Her father's visit to the US stirs up the unwanted memories and brings disquietude.
  • It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied. Archive 2008-04-01
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