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English
Etymology
From Middle English stilthe, from Old English *stilþ, *stillþ, *stillþu (“stillness”), from Proto-Germanic *stilliþō (“stillness, quietness”), equivalent to still + -th. Cognate with West Frisian stilte (“silence, stillness, quietness”), Dutch stilte (“silence, stillness, quietness”), Low German stilte (“quietness”), Old High German stillida (“quietness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
stillth (uncountable)
- The state, quality, or condition of being still; stillness; tranquility; peace.
1921, Gilbert Frankau, The seeds of enchantment:And suddenly the magic of this place — the fragrance and the stillth and the peace of it — took Dicky by the throat.
1953, James Reynolds, James Reynolds' Ireland:[…] a battle rages in the old pile again tonight. "Will no stilth ever come to bad auld Fergus Keep?" a man of the roads once said to me, when I stopped to rest on a bridge high above the gorge of White Abbey. He was maundering and mouthing about battles and thirst, in one breath.
1965, West & East, an independent monthly:Whenever I was in deep thought in the stillth of a night in longing for the mainland, it seemed that a voice was calling in the dark.