Usage examples (37)

• This street was not so crowded as K, and I walked along in quietude, catching my breath and congratulating myself upon my hat and my get-away.
• His manners possess all that unostentatious frankness, and self-possessed urbanity and quietude, that is indicative of refined feelings.
• They both sat awhile in that kind of quietude which often falls between two who have stirred some deep fountain of emotion.
• Terms such as quietude, emptiness, and simplicity favored by the Laozi describe a general ethical orientation rather than specific practices.