quietage

English

Etymology

quiet +‎ -age

Noun

quietage (uncountable)

(obsolete) Quietness; stillness, peace.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Instead thereof sweet peace and quiet-age / It doth establish in the troubled mynd.

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