[a. F. quiétude (c. 1500) or ad. late L. quiētūdo, f. quiēt-us QUIET a.] QUIETNESS; rest, calm, tranquillity.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 46 b/2. That parte requireth nothinge els then quietude.
1675. Otway, Alcibiades, III. i. How sweet a Quietude’s in Fetters found.
1755. J. Shebbeare, Lydia (1769), II. 3. Love,… urged his bosom too vehemently, to suffer a moment’s quietude or delay.
1832. Lytton, Eugene A., I. v. 28. Philosophy has become another name for mental quietude.
1872. ‘H. A. Page,’ De Quincey, II. xvi. 29. The quietude of the Meadows … made them his favourite resorts.
