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单词 overquietness
释义

overquietness

English

Etymology

overquiet + -ness

Noun

overquietness (uncountable)

  1. Excessive quietness.
    • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, pp. 49-50,
      To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail [] were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.
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