disquietful
English
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editdisquietful (comparative more disquietful, superlative most disquietful)
- Producing inquietude or uneasiness.
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Evil-speaking in general”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
- love and pity of ourselves should persuade us to forbear it as disquietful, incommodious , and mischievous to us
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disquietful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)