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inquietude

NOUN
  1. feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

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  • And nothing illustrates so plainly the inquietude of his mind as his strange, disjointed narration of his relationship with his father.
  • These terms rid Natura of a great part of that insupportable constraint he had been under, but gave not the least satisfaction, as to his jealousy of honour; he doubted not but she would be guilty of many things, injurious in the highest degree to their public character, and which yet it would not so well become him to exert his authority in opposing, and these reflections gave him the most terrible inquietude; which shews, that though _jealousy_ is called the child of _love_, it is very possible to feel all the tortures of the Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
  • He listened to his father in silence, and attempted not any defense, which confirmed her in fearing that the inquietude of his mind, on Isabella's account, might, by keeping him long sleepless, have been the real cause of his rising late.
  • It should be noted, however, that this relative calm - save for the murmur of conversation between old friends and new acquaintances across the long tables - was in itself the source of a certain inquietude.
  • 'And, therefore, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories with present considerations seems a vanity out of date, and a superannuated piece of folly. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
  • In the height of this charming exercise, it entered my mind to make a kind of prognostic, that might calm my inquietude; I said, "I will throw this stone at the tree facing me; if I hit my mark, I will consider it as a sign of salvation; if I miss, as a token of damnation. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
  • The all-pervasive reservations and donations system too adds to the youths' inquietude.
  • And therefore, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto the present considerations seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • Frustrated and agitated, he dreams of the ‘inquietude and anger’ of his murdered friend.
  • We are already in the twentieth century with its restlessness, its inquietude, ‘the age of anxiety’.
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