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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Tranquil(l)ité, -ie, n. Also: tranquillitee, tranquillity, tranquilietie, tranqwilitie, tranqualitie, transquillité. [ME and e.m.E. tranquillite(e (Chaucer), tranquilite (1545), OF tranquillite, L. tranquillitāt-.] Peace, lack of disturbance or tumult; serenity. a. Of the state of being or mind of a person. b. Applied to the community or body politic.a. 1494 Loutfut MS 33b.
A fair man … & mycht nocht lif bot with suetnes … And liffit of the transquillite of noblesse and nocht of outtrageous corporal mettis c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5010.
In that moste heych auctoritie Thow suld fynd leist tranquilitie 1562-3 Winȝet I 23/9.
Quhou happy ane thing it war giue euerie man mycht leue according to his vocation, at ane tranquillitie in godlines 1584-9 Maxwall Commonpl. Bk. 1b.
Meiknes & tranqwilitie exceidis far abwif st[urt] 1600 Bruces & Cumyns 615.
Swa the hairshist … crosses brings … tranquillitieb. 1456 Hay II 76/26.
Governe thame … with clemence … For than, for the lufe that thai sall have to thé … thou sall have the dominacioun apon thame with pes and tranquillitee 1456–70 Acts XII 26/2.
Landis … brukyt in pace and tranquilite 1475 Cal. Doc. IV 409.
The conservacioun of peax and tranquillite betuix the realmes 1485 Acts II 170/2.
It is thocht expedient … for the encres of justice & tranquilite in the realme that our souveran lord caus his justice airis to be haldin vniuersaly in al partis of his realme 1531 Bell. Boece I 7.
Throw quhilk the Scottis micht have na tranquilite, without the said pepill wer mair haistelie dantit 1535 Stewart 26320.
Tranquillitie c1500-50 Brevis Cronica 326.
Ethfyne … regnit nobilly in tranquillity and justice threttie-one ȝeir 1559 Aberd. B. Rec. I 323.
To put the same in suir … keiping quhill the said uproir and tumilt war put to tranquilite 1560 Rolland Seven S. 3933.
Than ȝe may haue all at tranquillitie. Ȝour haill impyre weill into peice and rest 1562 Edinb. Hammermen 252b.
To haue raisit ane vprore … in the toun & to the gret hurt of the commoun tranqualitie of the said burcht 1565 Facs. Nat. MSS III xlix.
Preferring thair particular avancement to the publict tranquillite a1578 Pitsc. I 46/15.
Gif hie war cuttit of, the contrie sould be at greatter tranquilietie 1622-6 Bisset II 198/30.
Contenand the … sea lawis … witht the annotationis. Pace and concorde generis prosperitie … fra meiknes cummis pace and tranquilitie