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English Dictionary: unrest by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unrest
n
  1. a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"
    Synonym(s): agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest
  2. a feeling of restless agitation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unrest \Un*rest"\, n.
      Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness;
      uneasiness; disquietude.
  
               Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
               Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single
               breast?                                                   --Tennyson.
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