stillth
noun/stɪlθ/
Etymology From Middle English stilthe, from Old English *stilþ, *stillþ, *stillþu (“stillness”), from Proto-Germanic *stilliþō (“stillness, quietness”), equivalent to still + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with West Frisian stilte (“silence, stillness, quietness”), Dutch stilte (“silence, stillness, quietness”), Low German stilte (“quietness”), Old High German stillida (“quietness”).
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The state, quality, or condition of being still; stillness; tranquility; peace.
- And suddenly the magic of this place — the fragrance and the stillth and the peace of it — took Dicky by the throat.1921, Gilbert Frankau, The seeds of enchantment:
- […] a battle rages in the old pile again tonight. "Will no stilth ever come to bad auld Fergus Keep?" a man of the roads once said to me, when I stopped to rest on a bridge high above the gorge of White Abbey. He was maundering and mouthing about battles and thirst, in one breath.1953, James Reynolds, James Reynolds' Ireland:
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- Whenever I was in deep thought in the stillth of a night in longing for the mainland, it seemed that a voice was calling in the dark.1965, West & East, an independent monthly: