Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A state of quiescence; rest; repose.
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Such bolts clutched promptly overnight, and launched with the early new morning, shall strike agitated Paris if not into requiescence, yet into wholesome astonishment.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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