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单词 unstill
释义 unˈstill, a.
(un-1 7. Cf. OE. unstille, OHG. unstilli, MLG. unstil, obs. Du. onstil.)
[1648Hexham ii, Onstil, Vnstill, or Disquiet.]1743C. Wesley in Jrnl. (1805) I. 247 Some very unstil sisters, who always..tried who could cry loudest.1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 184 A maid undressing an unstil child.1903Kipling in Windsor Mag. Sept. 363/1 She never kept still. She kept very unstill.
Hence unˈstillness. (In quots. after OE. unstillnes, -nys.)
1846Thorpe tr. ælfric's Hom. II. 375 He..tries these five senses, who through curiosity and unstillness wastes them uselessly.1875Anderida I. vii. 121 When some..attendants discovered the unstillness to Osgod's companions.
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