What is "unrests"

Usage examples of "unrests".

Do what they may to persuade themselves that their state is the happiest, they are still full of vague unrests, of dim, ill-defined dissatisfactions, of a tendency to narrow ways and selfish thoughts.

Recently there had been small local unrests but the police had been able to deal with these quickly and efficiently - the execution rate had also increased recently.

They go way way back to the industrial unrests of the nineteenth century, at least, and probably a good deal further.