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   quietism
         n 1: a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all
               human effort and passive contemplation of God

English Dictionary: quetschen durch by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quietism \Qui"et*ism\, n. [Cf. F. qui[82]tisme.]
      1. Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference;
            apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
  
      2. (Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained
            that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from
            worldly interests and anxieties and its constant
            employment in the passive contemplation of God and his
            attributes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quietsome \Qui"et*some\, a.
      Calm; still. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   qdjanus
  
      A {Janus}-to-{Prolog} compiler by Saumya Debray
      .   It is meant to be used with {Sicstus
      Prolog} and is mostly compliant with "Programming in Janus" by
      Saraswat, Kahn, and Levy.
  
      Current version: 1.3.
  
      {(ftp://cs.arizona.edu/janus/qdjanus/)}.
  
      (1992-05-18)
  
  
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