Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of disquieting; disturbance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Disturbance.

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  • noun obsolete disturbance

Etymologies

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Latin inquietatio.

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Examples

  • Coulde not make out whether she were sick of her task, had had words with mother, or had some secret inquietation of her owne; but, as she is a girl of few words, I found I had best leave her alone after a caress and kind saying or two.

    Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

  • And yet your said humble subjects ne their predecessors could ever be privy to the said laws; ne any of the said laws have been declared unto them in the English tongue, or otherwise published, by knowledge whereof they might have eschewed the penalties, dangers, or censures of the same; which laws so made your said most humble and obedient servants, under the supportation of your Majesty, suppose to be not only to the diminution and derogation of your imperial jurisdiction and prerogative royal, but also to the great prejudice, inquietation, and damage of your said subjects.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Wherefore, forasmuch as we know well that there be as well-disposed and well-conscienced men of your Grace's Commons in no small number assembled, as ever we knew at any time in parliament; and with that consider how on our part there is given no such occasion why the whole number of the spirituality and clergy should be thus noted unto your Highness; we humbling our hearts to God and remitting the judgment of this our inquietation to Him, and trusting, as his Scripture teacheth, that if we love him above all, omnia cooperabuntur in bonum, shall endeavour to declare to your Highness the innocency of us, your poor orators.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

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