Literary notes about Disquiet (AI summary)
Authors use "disquiet" to evoke a spectrum of unease ranging from internal emotional disturbance to external societal unrest. In some works, the term marks the intensity of personal sorrow or mental agitation—a state that disrupts even sleep [1, 2]—while in others it captures a broader atmosphere of anxiety and foreboding, reflecting the social or political turbulence of an age [3, 4, 5]. Its versatility is further highlighted in lexicons and classical passages, where "disquiet" is defined with roots in stirring up inner perturbation and confusion [6, 7]. Thus, across diverse narratives and eras, writers harness "disquiet" to underscore the fragile border between tranquility and inner turmoil.
- Thereupon he began to weep and to disquiet himself, and then he sat down upon a stone and went to sleep.
— from Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore - He fell asleep on the bench; but his mental disquiet continued through his slumbers.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - To a man who is struggling with a complicated burden of perplexity and disquiet, such a reception is trying, I assure you.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - “I am far from happy, Miss Havisham; but I have other causes of disquiet than any you know of.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - During a greater portion of the day the wind, which blew furiously and incessantly, seemed possessed with a spirit of fierce disquiet and unrest.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales by Bret Harte - Τυρβάζω, (τύρβη, tumult) f. άσω, to stir up, render turbid; to throw into a state of perturbation, disquiet; mid.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield - Ἐκταράσσω, ( ἐκ & ταράσσω ) f. ξω, to disturb, disquiet, throw into confusion, Ac. 16.20.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield
