Quietus

Quick meaning: Quietus is a noun meaning A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.

Meaning

A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Death.
2. Final settlement (e.g., of a debt).

Example Sentences

When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?

The very unromantically accoutred form of a keen-visaged, middle-aged female, padding heavily in bedroom slippers along the garden walk, gave its quietus to the situation.

Olive's specific terrors and dangers had by this time very much blown over; Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.

After a good deal of firing, and lying in wait - for every time he heard a shot down he'd go, and on coming to the surface, would only expose about two or three inches of his nose to fire at - we managed to give him his quietus.

Word Forms

• quietuses

Synonyms for quietus

Depending on context, synonyms include demise, fatality, death, tomb, decease, decomposition.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rest, sleep, decease, quiet, quietness, quiescence.

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