inquietation
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English inquietacion, inquietacioun, inquietacyon, inquietation, from Middle French inquietation and its etymon, Latin inquiētātiō.[1][2]
Noun
editinquietation (countable and uncountable, plural inquietations)
- (obsolete) disturbance
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, “That a gouernour ought to be mercifull and the diuersitie of mercye and vayne pitie”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, 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, 2nd book, page 146:
- Howe many semely personagis, by outrage in riotte, gamynge, and excesse of apparaile, be induced to thefte and robry, and some tyme to murdre, to the inquietation of good men, and finally to their owne destruction?
References
edit- “inquietation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “inquiẹ̄tāciǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “inquietation, n.”, in OED Online
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