quietude

[ UK /kwˈa‍ɪ‍ətjuːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state of peace and quiet
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How To Use quietude In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Or does his quietude imply he is a crafty opportunist hoping the crown will fall into his lap?
  • 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
  • Her father's visit to the US stirs up the unwanted memories and brings disquietude.
  • 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
  • In fact, freed of the crushing exactions laid upon them by a Rome always eager to bribe its vast, unproductive military class into quietude, they may even have been left to enjoy more of the fruits of their own labors than usual.
  • All wrong for the drink that writer E.B. White called the elixir of quietude. Shake Or Stir, But Please Don't Sweeten
  • They are always kind and considerate, provided only these persons possess that unpresuming quietude of manner, which makes up a considerable part of that character they delight in, and which they call _safe_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
  • This many people liking something completely secular creates disquietude among the pew-cramming masses.
  • The all-pervasive reservations and donations system too adds to the youths' inquietude.
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