Citations:disquiet

English citations of disquiet

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Noun

disquiet (uncountable)

1. Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; anxiety, disturbance, restlessness, uneasiness.
   • 1818, anonymous [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC:

     My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.

Verb

disquiet (third-person singular simple present disquiets, present participle disquieting, simple past and past participle disquieted)

1. To make (someone) worried or anxious.
   • 1810 August, “An Oration on Fortitude”, in The Port Folio, volume IV, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by Bradford & Inskeep and Inskeep & Bradford, New York, →OCLC, page 175:

     Such was the magnanimity of [Marie] Antoinette; such the unrelenting barbarity of her persecutors; that not content with disquieting her life, their malice extended beyond existence and attacked the purity of her character.