Both Uses of
quell
in
Throne of Glass
- He'd hoped his journey to Endovier would quell that boredom, and that he'd be glad to return home, but he found home to be the same.†
p. 128.5 *
- She was his fastest, but he'd never been able to quell the wildness within her.†
p. 130.3
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.