All 3 Uses of
quell
in
Rappaccini's Daughter
- But he strove hard to quell them and to respond to Baglioni with a true lover's perfect faith.†
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- Giovanni's rage was quelled into an aspect of sullen insensibility.†
quelled = stopped or suppressed
- Dost thou deem it misery to be endowed with marvellous gifts against which no power nor strength could avail an enemy—misery, to be able to quell the mightiest with a breath—misery, to be as terrible as thou art beautiful?†
Definitions:
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(1)
(quell) suppress or stop completely
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
While quell still means to suppress or stop, in Shakespeare's time, it had a more violent connotation--often meaning to murder or to eliminate someone or something.