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Unrest   /ənrˈɛst/   Listen
Unrest

noun
1.
A state of agitation or turbulent change or development.  Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness.  "Social unrest"
2.
A feeling of restless agitation.





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"Unrest" Quotes from Famous Books



... to replace her with a second wife, she drove it away. Faithful to him still, as in the worst times through which she had borne him single-handed, she drove the thought away; and entertained no harder reflection, in her tearful unrest, than that he now saw everything through their wealth, and through the care he always had upon him that they should continue rich, and ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... twilight, and with the lady's face gloomily turned toward the sunless pool. David could not forget that for her there were no hours to count; she had said it herself. He could not understand how this could be so; and the thought filled him with vague unrest and pain. ...
— Just David • Eleanor H. Porter
... unquestioned accuracy and described with humor the gross ignorance and brutality of some of the southern legislators, the looting of the capitol at the end of the session, the indirect robbery that was under way, the reversal of all the conditions of life, and the growing unrest of the men who ...
— A History of the McGuffey Readers • Henry H. Vail
... to another sphere of revolutionary unrest. His influence gradually died away. He dwindled into a mere name. "But the fact remains," to use his own words, "and will hereafter be placed in the history of extraordinary things, that a pamphlet should be produced by an individual, unconnected ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various
... Unrest was upon him. Life had become stagnant, a tasteless thing. He was keen for the open stretches, honing to be gone down the wind. He fretted and ate out his heart for the freedom of the range. Old Anita, passing at some ...
— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe


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