Meaning & use
quietus
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Death, or something that finally puts an end to something, especially by causing it to stop or be settled.
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The scandal delivered the final quietus to his political career.
Hamlet contemplates finding his quietus with "a bare bodkin" in his famous soliloquy.
A note on using this word
A formal, literary word most familiar from Shakespeare's "Hamlet"; rarely used in modern casual speech.
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