adv. [UN-1 11, 5 b.] Without being or keeping quiet; restlessly; esp. with disquiet or discomfort (of body or mind); uneasily.

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c. 1510.  Barclay, Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570), G iij. Least his giftes … augment envy And cause him liue after much more vnquietly.

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1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Inconstanter, To be alway mouyng vnconstantly and vnquietly.

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1592.  Chettle, Kind-harts Dr. (1841), 33. My quiet ghost (vnquietly disturbed).

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1605.  Shaks., Lear, III. i. 2. Kent. Who’s there besides foule weather? Gen. One minded like the weather, most vnquietly.

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1640.  Bp. Hall, Chr. Moder., I. xi. 109. When he was asked, what man lived most unquietly.

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1671.  Salmon, Syn. Med., I. xxxviii. 86. They sleep little, and that unquietly.

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1715.  J. Chappelow, Rt. Way Rich (1717), 79. The one bears the Trouble very unquietly.

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1797.  Coleridge, Christabel, I. 323. If she move unquietly [in sleep].

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1800.  Med. Jrnl., III. 520. He slept very unquietly, and the pain … extended up towards his shoulders.

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1881.  Atlantic Monthly, XLIX. 51. Nell started, as from a dream, and then laughed slightly, but unquietly.

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