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inquietation

inquietation noun: disturbance.

Noun

inquietation (countable and uncountable, plural inquietations)

  1. (obsolete) disturbance
    • 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?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...

Forms of inquietation

pluralinquietations

Origin of inquietation

From Middle English inquietacion, inquietacioun, inquietacyon, inquietation, from Middle French inquietation and its etymon, Latin inquiētātiō.

Questions about inquietation

What does inquietation mean?
Inquietation means disturbance.
What part of speech is inquietation?
Inquietation is a noun.
What is the plural of inquietation?
The plural of inquietation is inquietations.

Words near inquietation in the dictionary

  1. inquest of office
  2. inquestionable
  3. inquests
  4. inquests of office
  5. inquiet
  6. inquietation
  7. inquietations
  8. inquieted
  9. inquieting
  10. inquietly
  11. inquietness

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