Meanings
plural inquietations
- countableobsoleteuncountabledisturbance
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: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 146
Origin
- Latininquiētātiō
- Middle Frenchinquietation
- Middle Englishinquietacion
- Englishinquietation
From Middle English inquietacion, inquietacioun, inquietacyon, inquietation, from Middle French inquietation and its etymon, Latin inquiētātiō.
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