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Answer for the clue "Disquiet ", 6 letters:
unrest

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Unrest \Un*rest"\, n. Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude. Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! --Chaucer. Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast? --Tennyson.

Usage examples of unrest.

SPIRIT OF THE YEARS A hot ado goes forward here to-day, If I may read the Immanent Intent From signs and tokens blent With weird unrest along the firmament Of causal coils in passionate display.

Maintainer who brought us blankets whether there had been any unrest on Bottommost concerning the messenger of the Boundless.

The resulting social and political unrest - coupled with violent, though typically impotent, protests against the war, America and the political leadership - is unlikely to convince panicky tottering regimes to offer greater political openness and participatory democracy.

The congressional and state elections of 1894 revealed the unstable equilibrium of parties, and at the same time the total Populist vote of nearly a million and a half reflected the increasing popular unrest.

Outside the air free of smoke and the moisture of exhaled breath smote Prew like cold water and he inhaled deeply, suddenly awake again, then let it out, trying to let out with it the weary tired unrest that was urging him to go back.

But the same quenchless fever of unrest That thrilled the foremost of that martyred throng Thrilled me, and I awoke .

The meeting of its consciousness with the alienated mournful faces of things, with the hostile retributive forces of things, produces unrest and suffering with the same natural necessity that the meeting of certain chemical substances deposits poison and bitterness.

The soul of a nation distrest Is aflame, And heaving with eager unrest In its aim To assert its old prowess, and stouten its chronicled fame!

But when the dumb unrest grows into conscious expression and becomes almost universal, it necessarily affects all phases of human thought and action, and seeks its individual and social expression in the gradual transvaluation of existing values.

Exhausted he was, nerveless, weak, but this apathy was still invaded from time to time with fierce incursions of a spirit of unrest and revolt, reactions, momentary returns of the blind, undirected energy that at one time had prompted him to a vast desire to acquit himself of some terrible deed of readjustment, just what, he could not say, some terrifying martyrdom, some awe-inspiring immolation, consummate, incisive, conclusive.

At the moment the two Gauls were the consular provinces, due to unrest in the further province among the Allobroges, the Aedui and the Sequani.

The seething unrest which found expression in the rebellion of the knights, of the peasants and of the Anabaptists at Muenster, has been described.

Governor with keeping an ear to the ground, as it were, in the backcountry, for signs of unrest.

When there was unrest in the air, Barba Jannis was the first to scent it.

The Rule of Ten believe the Tovieti are responsible for all the unrest along the borders of late.