inquiet
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of inquiet
1375–1425; late Middle English inquieten < Latin inquiētāre. See in- 3, quiet
Example Sentences
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The old chap collapsed on my shoulder and cried like a baby, saying over and over: "J'étais si inquiet: j'étais si inquiet!"
From A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson
"I fancied it was something like that," Lucinda commented, unsuspiciously enough but in a thoughtful tone open to misconstruction by an inquiet conscience.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
In future it must become a stranger, at least in looks and conversation, to her whom he loved with an inquiet fervour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
Where the powers of the mind are vigorous but unoccupied; where there exist a restless craving, an inquiet mobility, yet without any definite purpose or commensurate object, there is ennui.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
I do not inquiet myself for him, not more than he does for me.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
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