Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tendency to rest or inaction; sluggishness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness.
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- noun obsolete The quality or state of being
resty ;sluggishness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lycurgus's restiness, refus'd to bed with him that night, and by that means the more easily put in execution what he had been thinking on.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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But as soon as he arrived, he stopped and stood still, although Maritornes and the hostess demanded of him twice or thrice the cause of his restiness in not assisting her lord and husband.
The Fourth Book. XVII. Wherein Are Prosecuted the Wonderful Adventures of the Inn 1909
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As namely, that it is a suppressing of the restiness and contradiction of our understandings, the rebel lion of our wills, the tumult of our passions, the querulous outcries of our tongues, and lastly the vindictive fierceness of our actions or behaviours, under any calamity or distress, injury or provocation whatsoever.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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