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quietus
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synonyms: shuffle off this mortal coil, cark it ???
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Definition:a release from life
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When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
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It looks as though [he] had got his quietus.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.167 (1939)
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that this final year, in which Albertine’s destiny had begun to change and had received its quietus, appeared to me full, multiform, vast, like a whole century.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 6] The Sweet Cheat Gone
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The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take,
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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