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quietus

noun as in release from life

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Kg5, and now, with both Black rooks hanging, a simple king move delivers the quietus.

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Instead, it was a much quicker quietus after 19.

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"Whom would fardels bear under such a weary and long life.... when he could his quietus make with a bare bodkin?"

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What’s most disheartening is how unspectacular a quietus it turns out to be.

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Last night also put the quietus to that numbing “small ball” we kept hearing from the game announcers all summer, in a season dominated by enormous heat-radiating relievers and resulting low scores and shrivelled offense.

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