inquietation

English

Etymology

Latin inquietatio.

Noun

inquietation (countable and uncountable, plural inquietations)

1. (obsolete) disturbance
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     artificers apprenticed in England have gone to murdre, to the inquietation of good men

References

• “inquietation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.