inquietude

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What added to our inquietude was the circumstance that two-thirds of our original number were now waiting for us in Paris, and clinging, as we now did most painfully, to any addition to our melancholy remnant, this division, with the tameless impassable ocean between, struck us with affright.

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  1. noun A state of restlessness or uneasiness; disquietude.

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  • I do not like this life of continual inquietude, and, entre nous , I am determined to try to earn some money here myself, in order to convince you that, if you choose to run about the world to get a fortune, it is for yourself; for the little girl and I will live without your assistance unless you are with us. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • But your inquietude will be redoubled when you learn that I made an attempt at Strasburg, which has failed. —  Hortense Makers of History Series
  • The state of the sea did not inspire him with immediate inquietude, and his physical being showed a little reaction. —  Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
  • I do not like this life of continual inquietude--and, entre nous_, I am determined to try to earn some money here myself, in order to convince you that, if you chuse to run about the world to get a fortune, it is for yourself--for the little girl and I will live without your assistance, unless you are with us. —  Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • I do not like this life of continual inquietude, and, entre nous_, I am determined to try to earn some money here myself, in order to convince you that, if you choose to run about the world to get a fortune, it is for yourself; for the little girl and I will live without your assistance unless you are with us. —  Mary Wollstonecraft
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  1. Middle English, disturbance, from Late Latin inquiētūdō, restlessness, from Latin inquiētus, restless : in-, not; see in-1 + quiētus, quiet; see quiet.

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  1. from French inquiétude = Provencal inquietut = Spanish inquietud = Italian inquietudine, from Late Latin inquietudo, restlessness, from Latin inquietus, restless, unquiet: see inquiet, adjective
 

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