DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

quietus / kwy-EE-tuhs / noun: 1. A final discharge, as of a duty or debt. 2. Removal from activity; rest; death. 3. Something that serves to suppress, check, or eliminate.

Notes & Etymology: From the Medieval Latin quietus (est), "(it is) at rest" (said of an obligation that has been discharged), from Latin quietus, "at rest."

Usage: “During his final illness, someone asked Schiller how he felt: "calmer and calmer" was the reply. It was a quietus he richly deserved ."
Roger Kimball; "Schiller's 'Aesthetic Education"; New Criterion; March 2001