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Tumultuousness

Tumultuous \Tu*mul"tu*ous\, a. [L. tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.]

  1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.

    The flight became wild and tumultuous.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.

  3. Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.

    His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast.
    --Milton.

  4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.

    Syn: Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious. [1913 Webster] -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ness, n.

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tumultuousness

n. The quality of being tumultuous.

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tumultuousness

n. a state of commotion and noise and confusion [syn: tumult, uproar, garboil]

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Then he remembered another matter that had been almost overlooked in the tumultuousness of his arrival at the Oakenkeep with Grandam Zaz and his afflicted lady.