"Quietus" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In old English law. Quit; acquitted; discharged. A word used by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors ln the exchequer, in their acquittances or discharges given to accountants; usuaily concluding with an abinde recessit quietus, (hath gone quit thereof,) which was called a “quietus est" CowelL
Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or
obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
We decided to leave early, you wouldn't want to be there in the end, when the lights came on. You'd never sit down in here again. In a depressing shuffle we pushed to the door, now it was good to get up and out, while it was still a black hole, warm, and smokey, full of possibilities...
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In old Engllsh law. Delivered from that punishment which by the laws of the forest lay upon those whose beasts …
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