1. satisfaction of a duty or debt.
2. rest or a release, esp. death.
"Who would bear the whips and scorns of time . . . when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" --Hamlet
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the moment between life and death, where all is still and rushing from past to the very moment you pass through the light, to whatever may become of you
As i lay dying, i passed into a dream, i met quietus, i was greeted with a smile.
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end; cessation. The noun form of the verb/adjective quiet.
When the principal of the high school found out the football team was bulking up on steroids, he put the quietus to the practice.
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