Definition of "inquietude"

inquietude

noun
countable and uncountable, plural inquietudes
1. A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
  Quotations
  Yet, I confess, my frankness has involved me in many after thoughts and inquietudes; inquietudes, which all my reasoning is, at times, insufficient to allay.
  1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney, published 1999, page 121
  The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been—that had been—hard for him to bear.
  1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, page 223
  Even as he spoke, steps were heard near the apartment; and while the eyes of both were turned with inquietude on the expected intruder, Lord Lovel entered: […]
  1830, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 39