Quietus

/kwaɪˈiːtəs/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
2. (figuratively) Death.
3. Final settlement (e.g., of a debt).

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

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.

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