Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of disquieting, or the state of being disquieted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment.

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  • noun State of being disquieted; uneasiness.

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Examples

  • Bolton, who is seen as an nationalist in the extreme despite the US's vocal disquietment with other countries that have assumed a "nationalist" posture thanks to the misbehavior of the The George, is nothing more than a trouble maker and a righ wing horn.

    Is There No Depth Too Odious For the Bush Regime? 2006

  • So to believe as to free our hearts from trouble and disquietment, upon any account whatever, is to trust properly; and that doubting, and staggering, and fear, which in Scripture we find condemned as opposite to faith, are indeed directly opposite to this fiduciary reposing our souls on

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • But such fearful effects, sometimes trouble, disquietment, disappointment, and carnal fear will produce.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • The Lord chargeth them home upon their consciences, to their trouble and disquietment; he makes them go with wounds and blows upon that account.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Physician, let him do it the right way, let him quiet his heart in the promises of the covenant; yet, when peace is spoken, if it be not attended with the detestation and abhorrency of that sin which was the wound and caused the disquietment, this is no peace of God's creating, but of our own purchasing.

    Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

  • The Scripture principally evidenceth this work of conviction, or placeth it in this effect of a sense of sin, in trouble, sorrow, disquietment of mind, fear of ruin, and the like: see

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Things that before were slighted and made a mock of do now become the soul's burden and constant disquietment.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Where it gives disquietment, all the world cannot give it peace; and where it speaks peace, there is none can give it trouble.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • What do men do, what ofttimes are they directed unto, when their consciences are galled by sin and disquietment from the Lord, who hath laid hold upon them?

    Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

  • But how shall a man know whether there be any thing of God's chastening hand in his being left to the disquietment of his distemper?

    Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

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