[UN-1 12, 5 b.] Absence or want of quiet; disquiet, disturbance.

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1551.  in Froude, Hist. Eng. (1860), V. 328. Occasions of disorder and unquiet in the realm.

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1592.  Kyd, Sp. Trag., III. xv. 23. Nor dies Reuenge, although he sleepe awhile; For in vnquiet quietnes is faind.

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1613.  Sherley, Trav. Persia, 106. [It] did aggrauate both the griefe of my minde and unquiet of my bodie.

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1668.  Pepys, Diary, 10 Jan. The unquiet which her ripping up of old faults will give me.

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1746.  Eliza Heywood, Female Spect., No. 23 (1748), IV. 258. The cause of his own unquiet, and of that of one so dear to him.

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1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., i. 48. The unquiet and unrest of the day are gradually subdued as the evening descends.

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1887.  Spectator, 1 Oct., 1300. The unquiet of the sea.

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