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 vague inquiet began to deepen into serious misgiving.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
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
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
That was it, something rich and strange, like some old cloister into which one might turn from an inquiet and hubbubby street ...
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
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