quit
/kwɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'."
- "The British quit India in the 1940s."
- "Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”"
- "He quitted the lake on the 23rd of September, and on the 4th of October arrived at Queenstown, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, having succeded in finding a transitable route."
- "... to cause the tenants to quit and give the plaintiff possession of the cottages, &c., ..."
- "The lions, if they left not the forest, would capture no prey; and the arrow, if it quitted not the bow, would not strike the mark."
Etymology
From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus. Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
quight (alternative)
quits (present, singular)
quitting (participle, present)
quitted (participle, past)
quitted (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
quitted (first person, past)
quittest (archaic, present)
quitted (past, second person)
quittedst (archaic, past)
quitteth (archaic, present)