Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disturbance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Act of disturbing; disturbance.
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- noun obsolete
disturbance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since the unexpected home coming of Red Reckless there had been a subtle difference, a ruffling of the waters which usually ran so placidly at the country home, a darkening and disturbation of the surface which hinted at hidden whirlpools and cross currents.
The Short Cut Jackson Gregory 1912
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We had gone to Lucerne; it was clear moonlight, and we smoked on our little balcony at the Schweitzerhof, puffing our small clouds in the enormous face of the strangest panorama of the world, that august disturbation of the earth by gods in battle, left to be a land of tragic fables since before Pilate was there, and remaining the same after
The Beautiful Lady Booth Tarkington 1907
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