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Definition of Quietening
1. quieten [v] - See also: quieten
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Literary usage of Quietening
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1. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1813)
"A most respectable Medical Review, having occasion to notice quietening, in April
1810, says, " the only physiological question which occurred during the ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep."
Old Martin opened the gate as he saw the family procession approaching, ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... my dropping spirits sing, And every part revives into a Spring. But if Thy
quietening beams a while decline, And with their light bless not this Orb ..."
4. The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New-Testament, and by Isaac Watts (1802)
"C' •SOME, Holy Spirit, heav'nly Dove, ^l With all thy quietening pow r4 Kindle
a flame of faired love ..."
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