disquiet
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Is disquiet a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (chiefly obsolete) Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.Examples: "I pray you huſband be not ſo diſquiet. / The meate was well, if you were ſo contented."; "How rare is it for men to get their lot in the world brought up to their deſire? but are ſtill at ſome jar with their preſent condition, ſo that oft there needs no more to turn men discontent but the thought of ſome lot, which they apprehend more ſatiſfying than their own, the want whereof turns them more diſquiet than all their enjoyments are pleaſing; […]"; "From this place it was that i uſed to go often to view my boat; and now i ſhall relate a thing that gave me the moſt diſquiet of any thing i had ever met with, ſince my firſt coming into the iſland. […] [O]ne day, as i was going to my boat, as uſual, i perceived on the ſand, the print of a man's naked foot, and had i ſeen an apparition, i could not have been more terrified."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.Examples: "He felt disquieted by the lack of interest the child had shown."; "They have been brought up religiouſly, and have been accuſtomed to read, and pray; and if at any time they do neglect and omit these duties, conſcience is upon them and upbraids and diſquiets them; and they are afraid to neglect them, leſt conſcience will queſtion and trouble them."; "This Bill, for taking away the Bishops Votes out of the Houſe of Peers, produced another Diſcovery, which caſt the Conductors farther behind, than they were Advanced by their Conqueſt amongst the Commons; and diſquieted them much more, than the other had Exalted them."Synonyms: unquiet, unsettleintransitivetransitive
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