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disquiet

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disquiet \Dis*qui"et\, n. Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety. --Swift.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Disquiet is the fourteenth studio album by the band Therapy? , and the first album to be released on new UK label Amazing Record Co. . Produced by Tom Dalgety ( Royal Blood / Band of Skulls / Turbowolf ), it was released on 23 March 2015. Demo sessions ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments [syn: anxiousness ] the trait of seeming ill at ease [syn: unease , uneasiness ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES chill of fear/apprehension/disquiet etc ▪ Fay felt a chill of fear as she watched Max go off with her daughter. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE public ▪ Despite this innovation there continued to be considerable ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from dis- + quiet . Related: Disquieted ; disquieting . As a noun, from 1570s.

Usage examples of disquiet.

Before the next operation came off an invasion of the Wakde-Sarmi area on 17 May the disquieting discovery had been made that heavy bombers could not use the Lake Sentani airfields, and that no site suitable for them existed in Dutch New Guinea, short of Biak Island.

Senator was following this byplay with an interest Margaret found disquieting, and she felt her cheeks redden.

Not once did it strike Domini as strange that she should go far out into the desert with a man of whom she knew nothing, but in whom she had noticed disquieting peculiarities.

Suzanne was happy to break off from the disquieting image of the fixated child.

Clinton scandals of one sort or another have been threatened, beaten, and even murdered in disquieting numbers.

I was relieved to learn that the Princess Shams was not going to be fruitful and multiply her ugliness, thanks to her pomegranate preventive, though by rights I should have been disquieted, because I was thereby participating in one of the most abhorrent and mortal sins a Christian can commit.

Tyndall was, for his rather swashbuckling ways disturbed her, even his charm caused her disquiet, but her inclination was to trust him.

When I got to my room I thought I had better look at the bank notes, for the depletion of my purse disquieted me.

In this deplorable condition he was found by our adventurer, who gently chid him for his want of resolution, and again repelled his sorrow, by arousing his resentment against the innocent cause of his disquiet, having beforehand forged the particulars of provocation.

Melvil hastened thither on the wings of brotherly affection, and presented his letter to the abbess, who having perused the contents, by which she learned that the family disquiets of Count Trebasi no longer subsisted, and that the bearer was the brother of Mademoiselle, she received him with great politeness, congratulated him on this happy event, and, begging he would excuse her staying with him in the parlour, on pretence of business, withdrew, saying, she would immediately send in a young lady who would console him for her absence.

He then represented the family disquiets and dismal tragedies produced from such mercenary and compulsive matches, and, in conclusion related the story of Don Diego and his daughter, which when the merchant heard, he started up with marks of terror in his countenance, and, throwing up the casement, called upon Valentine with great vociferation.

Republicans for what has happened and believe that equitable taxation will be restored if only the Democrats can win back the White House, there is this disquieting feet: The turning point on tax politics, when the inonied elites first began to win big, occurred in 1978 with the Democratic party fully in power and well before Ronald Reagan came to Washington, Democratic majorities have supported this great shift in tax burden every step of the way.

Together they instil disquiet and suspicion into the mind of Elsa as she is about to enter the minster to be married.

He thought of her - still as from a distance at which Estella had placed him - and knew that she not only had a disquieting beauty, but cleverness and courage, which are qualities that outlast beauty and make a woman powerful for ever.

And at the heart of that disquiet was not Tony Costello, but Garrett Wright.