Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Disturbance

Disturbance , noun

[Old French destorbance.]

1.
An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.
2.
Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.
Any man... in a state of disturbance and irritation. — Burke
3.
Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.
The disturbance was made to support a general accusation against the province. — Bancroft
4.
(Law) The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. — Blackstone