单词 | unquietude |
释义 | unquietuden. The state or condition of being unquiet; disquiet, restlessness. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] winOE disturbance1297 perturbingc1395 motiona1398 stirrage1513 turmoil1526 disquietness1535 buskling1546 jumbling1562 agitation1569 working1575 tumult1580 commotion1592 emotion1594 turbulence1598 bransle1603 pother1603 tumultuousnessa1617 unevennessa1637 unquietudea1639 disquietal1642 tumbling1660 disquietude1709 rouse1764 maelstrom1834 peacelessness1852 stir-up1900 a1639 H. Wotton Philos. Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 318 That a rod or barre of iron..will bewray a kind of unquietude and discontentment till it attain the former position. 1653 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes I. i. iii. 119 So very much was I possessed, Sir, with this kinde of unquietude [Fr. inquietude], that I could not hide it from Amestris. 1736 tr. T.-S. Gueullette Mogul Tales II. lvi. 73 She..retired at last over-charged with Grief, and left me under an Unquietude, which Words can never express. 1845 Fraser's Mag. May 615/2 Now, if the operation, thus prescribed, be an antidote to anger, it must be efficient in other cases of mental unquietude. 1899 F. Norris McTeague xvi. 303 It was a month of the greatest anxiety and unquietude for Trina. 1924 Jrnl. Illinois State Hist. Soc. 17 131 The unquietude was more or less settled by the unofficial reports that we would leave on the twenty-ninth. 1993 L. E. Wallace et al. tr. R. Rey Hist. Pain v. 90 He needs to be spurred on by desire, i.e. from lack and need, or even anxiety (‘unquietude’ or, in the etymological sense, lack of rest). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1639 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。