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Webster 1913 Edition
Quietsome
Qui′et-some
,Adj.
Calm; still.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quietsome
QUI'ETSOME
,Adj.
Definition 2024
quietsome
quietsome
English
Adjective
quietsome (comparative more quietsome, superlative most quietsome)
- (archaic) Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil
- 1810 (original 1595), Edmund Spenser, John Aikin, Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems:
- Let no false treason seek us to entrap, / Nor any dread disquiet once annoy / The safety of our joy; / But let the night be calm and quietsome, / Without tempestuous storms or sad affray, / Like as when Jove with fair Alcmena lay, [...]
- 1810 (original 1595), Edmund Spenser, John Aikin, Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems: