quietus
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təs noun, plural qui·e·tus·es.
1.
a finishing stroke; anything that effectually ends or settles: Having given a quietus to the argument, she left.
2.
discharge or release from life.
3.
a period of retirement or inactivity.
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| —n , pl -tuses | |
| 1. | anything that serves to quash, eliminate, or kill: to give the quietus to a rumour |
| 2. | a release from life; death |
| 3. | the discharge or settlement of debts, duties, etc |
| [C16: from Latin quiētus est, literally: he is at rest, | |
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Example sentences
Show your estimate of favorites by putting a quietus upon these fellows who are seeking to use them for bad purposes.
Collector of public money ineligible unless he has quietus.
The tense encounter in a forbidding landscape, the dark humor in the face of facts, the good chance of a painful quietus.
So he too will seek a remedy beneath the surgeon's knife and receive his quietus for it.
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