disquiet
noun
lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
disquiets
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present tense formof disquiet (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Cromwell identifies: “I have travelled so far to get here, and nothing they do disturbs me now, nor disquiets me, high on my branch.”
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2020
The Second Half, which is due in the autumn, is billed as a blend of "memoir and motivational writing in a manner which both disquiets and reassures, in Roy Keane's own original voice".
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2014
It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston
The angel, to calm her disquiets, says to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor before God.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
I am sure, nourishes great disquiets; and if Milan should stir, no part of Lombardy is secure to the present possessors,—whether the Venetian or the Austrian.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
