requiescent

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Quiescent; quiet; at rest. uncommon
    — Confidence he must have had, in the highest, in his own resources, or he could never have believed himself able, after putting down the Norman faction by Saxon arms, to resume his own place at the head of his feudal nobility, and replace the nobility in their predominating height of pride above the requiescent natives. Yet all this he did.

词形变化

more requiescent comparative most requiescent superlative

词源

Borrowed from Latin requiēscēns (“resting, reposing, sleeping”), present participle of requiēscere, from re- + quiēscō (“rest, repose”).
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