[f. prec.] The quality or condition of being unsettled.

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1619.  Ld. Herbert, Corr., in Life (1886), 346. And for their unsettledness, it is such as … they know not whom to trust.

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1682.  Flavell, Fear, 81. The unsetledness and distraction of our own thoughts.

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1748.  Hartley, Observ. Man, I. iv. § 6. 495. Sceptical Unsettledness and fool-hardy Impiety.

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1799.  J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 427. The present unsettledness in the value of grain.

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1832.  Examiner, 436/1. A sense of unsettledness pervades everything.

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1873.  Morley, Rousseau, II. 209. If the former is not acquired…, a man grows up with a drifting unsettledness of will.

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