Usage examples "quietude":
- I sometimes wondered how many other people felt the oppression of this union between quietude and terror. - "The Napoleon of Notting Hill", Gilbert K. Chesterton.
- One of our hurried flights had ended at a boarding house, and my extreme quietude- unnatural in a child of health and intelligence- attracted the attention of a certain boarder, who was an actress. - "Life on the Stage", Clara Morris.
- They are the poems he wrote in the prison which gave him quietude and shelter, and in the silence of which the soft voices of his childhood rose again. - "Paul Verlaine", Stefan Zweig.
