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Inquietude

Inquietude \In*qui"e*tude\, n. [L. inquietudo: cf. F. inquietude.] Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude.
--Sir H. Wotton.

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inquietude

n. A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous

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inquietude

n. feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable [syn: edginess, uneasiness, disquietude]

Usage examples of "inquietude".

As often as the tale was embellished with new incidents or enforced by new testimony, the hearer grew pale, his breath was stifled by inquietudes, his blood was chilled, and his stomach was bereaved of its usual energies.

Scotland for the present any inquietude or disturbance, she employed herself, more usefully and laudably, in regulating the affairs of her own kingdom, and promoting the happiness of her people.

What added to our inquietude was the circumstance that two-thirds of our original number were now waiting for us in Paris, and clinging, as we now did most painfully, to any addition to our melancholy remnant, this division, with the tameless impassable ocean between, struck us with affright.

Au mois de septembre 1066, Guillaume le Batard venait ici chaque matin consulter avec inquietude le coq du clocher.

This prognostic filled him with the deepest inquietude, and all the reasonings of his daughter were insufficient to appease him.

The attention of Madame de Rubine was now chiefly divided between her children, and the cares of her household, which two material concerns so entirely occupied her thoughts, that she did not revert so frequently as before to the primary cause of her inquietudes.

Scotland submitting entirely to the regent, gave not, during a long time, any further inquietude to Elizabeth.

Of one couple he wrote to Louisa Catherine, “They had eyes and ears to perceive the external person, but not feelings to sympathize with the internal griefs, pains, anxieties, solitudes, and inquietudes within.

The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been-- that had been--hard for him to bear.

The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been-- that had been-- hard for him to bear.