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(archaic) The state or condition of being unquiet; unease, restlessness..
[W]hat is he for a foole that betrothes himſelfe to vnquietneſſe?
He went hence but now, / And certainly in strange unquietness.
For as in the middest of the sea, though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him; yet he is well assured, that part contributes as much, to the Roaring of the Sea, as any other part, of the same quantity: so also, though wee perceive no great unquietnesse, in one, or two men; yet we may be well assured, that their singular Passions, are parts of the Seditious roaring of a troubled Nation.
If all be well within, nothing can hurt us from without: For from inordinate Love, and vain Fears, comes all Unquietness of Spirit, and Distraction of Senses.
It vvas then broad day. I vvas sitting up in the bed, the cloaths of vvhich vvere all tossed, or rolled off, by the unquietness of our motions
Mr. Yates […] immediately gave Sir Thomas an account of what they had done and were doing, […] relating every thing with so blind an interest as made him not only totally unconscious of the uneasy movements of many of his friends as they sat, the change of countenance, the fidget, the hem! of unquietness, but prevented him even from seeing the expression of the face on which his own eyes were fixed— […]
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Unquietness means (archaic) The state or condition of being unquiet; unease, restlessness..
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[W]hat is he for a foole that betrothes himſelfe to vnquietneſſe?
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