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inquietude

[ in-kwahy-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. restlessness or uneasiness; disquietude.
  2. inquietudes, disquieting thoughts:

    beset by myriad inquietudes.



inquietude

/ ɪnˈkwaɪət; ɪnˈkwaɪɪˌtjuːd /

noun

  1. restlessness, uneasiness, or anxiety
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Derived Forms

  • inquiet, adjective
  • ˈܾٱ, adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of inquietude1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Late Latin word Աܾŧūō. See in- 3, quietude
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Partying continued Friday, even as French officials pleaded with the participants to leave and as inquietude mounted within the French government.

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“Suddenly, I no longer needed kisses or caresses. Instead, I had this confidence, this independence. But it was not just about expressing myself. With the camera, I could also express the inquietude of the world.”

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As the commander in chief, Washington knew he must live up to the image of a man whose “brow is sometimes marked with thought, but never with inquietude.”

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The secretary of war, Henry Knox, also followed the public feuding, and wrote: “The different opinions of the treatment excite great inquietude—But Rush bears down all before him.”

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But increasingly, as it parades through Walmarts and burrito restaurants, it foments racial bias in gun-toters, and fear and inquietude in the very citizens that the guns are ostensibly supposed to protect.

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