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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Too much quietness.
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- noun Excessive
quietness .
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Examples
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To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness and no laboriousness in labor; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring penance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympics.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the flow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, [84] were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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