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usually uncountable, plural unrests
A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests. quotations examples
What words are these have fall’n from me?Can calm despair and wild unrestBe tenants of a single breast,Or sorrow such a changeling be?
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XVI, page 26