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un-stillness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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un-stillness, e; f.
absence of rest, motion
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  • Unstilnis

    agitatio,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 99, 55.
disturbance, noisiness, clamour
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  • Gif hé ðurhwunaþ cnucigeode, ðonne áríst se hírédes ealdor for ðæs óðres onhrópe, and him getíðaþ ðæs ðe hé bitt, ná for freóndrǽdene, ac for his unstilnysse,

    • Homl. Th. i. 248, 33.
  • Lǽrð ús se deófol unstilnesse and ungemetlíce hleahtras, and unnytte sprǽce,

    • Wulfst. 233, 18.
tumult, bustle, commotion
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  • Hé ne mihte ða unstillnesse ðara onfeallendra menigeo áberan

    tumultus inruentium turbarum non ferret,

    • Bd. 3, 19
    • ;
    • S. 549, 32.
disturbance, breach of peace
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  • On ðæs wífes gebǽrum oufundon ðæs cyninges þegnas ða unstilnesse (

    the king had been attacked and killed

    ),
    • Chr. 755
    • ;
    • Erl. 50, 3.
  • Læcedemonie hæfdon máran unstillnessa ðonne hié mægenes hæfdon

    Lacedaemonii, inquieti magis quam strenui,

    • Ors. 3, 1
    • ;
    • Swt. 98, 34.
restlessness, unruliness
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  • Hé geteah ðæt hig niorwedon mid fæstenum and mid gebedum hiora líchaman unstilnesse,

    • Shrn. 37, 3.
disquietude, disturbance of mind, trouble
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  • Se ðe his bróðor hataþ, hé hæfð unstilnesse and swýðe drófi mód,

    • Basil admn. 4
    • ;
    • Norm. 44, 16.
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v.  stillness.
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