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quiescence|kwaɪˈɛsəns, kwɪ-|
[ad. late L. quiēscentia: see quiescent and -ence.]
a. The state of being quiescent; quietness; an instance of this. Also, the action of making quiet or calm.
a1631Donne Lett. lxxx. Wks. (ed. Alford) VI. 397 Bless them with a satisfaction and Quiescence. 1664Power Exp. Philos. Pref. 11 That there is no such thing in the World as an absolute quiescence. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 137 ⁋2 To sleep in the gloomy quiescence of astonishment. 1812Woodhouse Astron. xxiii. 239 The anomalous retrogradations and quiescences of the planets. 1830Lyell Princ. of Geol. (1875) II. ii. xxx. 177 The local quiescence or dormant condition of the subterranean igneous causes. 1859Trollope Bertrams viii. 71 He had been useful as a great oil-jar, from whence oil for the quiescence of troubled waters might ever and anon be forthcoming. 1879Proctor Pleas. Ways Sc. ii. 29 The usual condition of the air..is one of motion, not of quiescence.
b. spec. in Hebrew grammar: see quiesce v. 2.
1828Stuart Elem. Heb. Lang. (1831) 54 Quiescence sometimes happens when the Evi would (by analogy) have a vowel. 1853J. R. Wolf Practical Heb. Gram. 112 This quiescence consists in such letters losing their consonantal power when preceded by certain vowels. |