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Webster 1913 Edition
Inquietude
In-qui′e-tude
,Noun.
[L.
inquietudo
: cf. F. inquietude
.] Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude.
Sir H. Wotton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inquietude
INQUI'ETUDE
,Noun.
Disturbed state; want of quiet; restlessness; uneasiness, either of body or mind; disquietude.
Definition 2024
inquietude
inquietude
See also: inquiétude
English
Noun
inquietude (plural inquietudes)
- A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
- 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1999), page 121
- Yet, I confess, my frankness has involved me in many after thoughts and inquietudes; inquietudes, which all my reasoning is, at times, insufficient to allay.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, page 395
- The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable
- 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1999), page 121
Translations
the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -udʒi
Noun
inquietude f (plural inquietudes)
- restlessness; inquietude (state or condition of being restless)