agitation
/ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ noun C1- The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion. · During a storm the sea is in agitation.
- A disturbance of personal tranquillity; disturbance of someone's peace of mind; an emotion combining irritation, restlessness and aggravation; a feeling of being riled up or bothered to the point of experiencing distress and tension. · She causes great agitation within me.
- Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc. · the antislavery agitation· labor agitation
- Putting into motion by shaking or stirring, often to achieve mixing.
Plural agitations
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The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned brought on a headache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening that, added to her unwillingness to see Mr.
Having been frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of former partiality entirely so.
But the spiritless condition which this event threw her into was shortly relieved, and her mind opened again to the agitation of hope, by an article of news which then began to be in circulation.
Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on seeing it was extreme.
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