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    [Noun]  | "qui*etus" | \ kwī-ˈē-təs \


    1: final settlement (as of a debt)

    2: removal from activity; especially : death

    3: something that quiets or represses

    Origin: 1540 ;

     Middle English quietus est, borrowed from Medieval Latin, "he is quit," formula of discharge from obligation;

    [Noun]  | "quietus" 


    1: a freeing from an obligation or responsibility;


      * e.g., " ... was granted a quietus on the remainder of the debt in the old man's will "




    2: the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities;


      * e.g., " ... her unshakable belief in a blissful afterlife allowed her to meet her quietus without the slightest tinge of fear or regret "



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     [ "quietus" ]

    1:  satisfaction of a duty or debt.

      * e.g.,  ... "Who would bear the whips and scorns of time . . . when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" --Hamlet 

     [ "quietus" ]

    2:  rest or a release, esp. death.

     [ "quietus" ]

    1: the moment between life and death, where all is still and rushing from past to the very moment you pass through the light, to whatever may become of you

      * e.g.,  ... As i lay dying, i passed into a dream, i met quietus, i was greeted with a smile. 

     [ "quietus" ]

    1: end; cessation. The noun form of the verb/adjective quiet.

      * e.g.,  ... When the principal of the high school found out the football team was bulking up on steroids, he put the quietus to the practice. 

     [ "quietus" ]

    1: Most badass character on the FPL.

      * e.g.,  ... Quietus pwns j00 in da faise. 

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