QUIESCENT in TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

2 uses

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Definition

being quiet or still or inactive for the time being

or in medicine: causing no symptoms

That dream, of sharing, completing, of finding in solitude on the beach an answer, was then but a reflection in a mirror, and the mirror itself was but the surface glassiness which forms in quiescence when the nobler powers sleep beneath?
2 — Time Passes (50% in)

Once only a board sprang on the landing; once in the middle of the night with a roar, with a rupture, as after centuries of quiescence, a rock rends itself from the mountain and hurtles crashing into the valley, one fold of the shawl loosened and swung to and fro.
2 — Time Passes (26% in)

There are no more uses of "quiescent" in To the Lighthouse.

Typical Usage (best examples)

quiescent used in To the Lighthouse