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disquiet
English
Etymology
dis- +? quiet.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?kwa??t/
- Rhymes: -a??t
- Hyphenation: dis?quiet
Noun
disquiet (countable and uncountable, plural disquiets)
- Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind
- Synonyms: anxiety, disturbance, restlessness, uneasiness
Translations
Adjective
disquiet (comparative more disquiet, superlative most disquiet)
- (chiefly obsolete) Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.
- 1669, anonymous [Robert Fleming], The Fulfilling of the Scripture, or An Essay Shewing the Exact Accomplishment of the Word of God in His Works of Providence, Performed and to be Performed. For Confirming the Beleevers, and Convincing the Atheists of the Present Time. Containing in the End a Few Rare Histories of the Works and Servants of God in the Church of Scotland, [Rotterdam: s.n.], OCLC 9818801; republished as The Fulfilling of the Scripture, in Three Parts. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Glasgow: Printed by Stephen Young, Prince's-Street, 1801, OCLC 561020060, page 234:
- How rare is it for men to get their lot in the world brought up to their de?ire? but are ?till at ?ome jar with their pre?ent condition, ?o that oft there needs no more to turn men discontent but the thought of ?ome lot, which they apprehend more ?ati?fying than their own, the want whereof turns them more di?quiet than all their enjoyments are plea?ing; […]
- 1719, “Robinson Crusoe” [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, whereon All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself, London: W. Taylor, OCLC 752551201; republished as The Wonderful Life, and Most Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York; Mariner. Containing a Full and Particular Account How He Lived Eight and Twenty Years in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America: How His Ship was Lost in a Storm, and All His Companions Drowned; and How He was Cast upon the Shore by the Wreck. With a True Relation How He was at last Miraculously Preserved by Pyrates. Faithfully Epitomized from the Three Volumes, and Adorned with Cutts Suited to the Most Remarkable Stories, London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red Lion, in Pater noster Row; R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, in Amen-Corner; and J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass, on London-Bridge, 1737, OCLC 559894466, page 51:
- From this place it was that i u?ed to go often to view my boat; and now i ?hall relate a thing that gave me the mo?t di?quiet of any thing i had ever met with, ?ince my fir?t coming into the i?land. […] [O]ne day, as i was going to my boat, as u?ual, i perceived on the ?and, the print of a man's naked foot, and had i ?een an apparition, i could not have been more terrified.
- 1669, anonymous [Robert Fleming], The Fulfilling of the Scripture, or An Essay Shewing the Exact Accomplishment of the Word of God in His Works of Providence, Performed and to be Performed. For Confirming the Beleevers, and Convincing the Atheists of the Present Time. Containing in the End a Few Rare Histories of the Works and Servants of God in the Church of Scotland, [Rotterdam: s.n.], OCLC 9818801; republished as The Fulfilling of the Scripture, in Three Parts. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Glasgow: Printed by Stephen Young, Prince's-Street, 1801, OCLC 561020060, page 234:
Derived terms
- disquieting
- disquietude
Verb
disquiet (third-person singular simple present disquiets, present participle disquieting, simple past and past participle disquieted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.
Synonyms
- unquiet (now rare)
- unsettle
Translations
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dread
English
Etymology
From Middle English dreden, from Old English dr?dan (“to fear, dread”), aphetic form of ondr?dan (“to fear, dread”), from and- +? r?dan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread.
Akin to Old Saxon antdr?dan, andr?dan (“to fear, dread”), Old High German intr?tan (“to fear”), Middle High German entr?ten (“to fear, dread, frighten”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: dr?d, IPA(key): /d??d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Verb
dread (third-person singular simple present dreads, present participle dreading, simple past and past participle dreaded)
- (transitive) To fear greatly.
- To anticipate with fear.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]
- Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]
- (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
- Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
- (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
Derived terms
- dreadable
- dreadly
- dreadworthy
Translations
Noun
dread (countable and uncountable, plural dreads)
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
- the secret dread of divine displeasure
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- (obsolete) A person highly revered.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene
- Una, his dear dread
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene
- (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
- A Rastafarian.
- (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock
Derived terms
- dreaden
- dreadful
- dreadless
- dreadsome
Translations
Adjective
dread (comparative dreader, superlative dreadest)
- Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
- (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
Derived terms
- dreadly
Translations
See also
- dreadlocks
- dreadnought
Anagrams
- adder, dared, radde, re-add, readd
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- dreads
Noun
dread m (plural dreads)
- Clipping of dreadlock.
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