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Definition of Tempestuousness

1. Noun. A state of wild storminess.

2. Noun. A state of agitation or turbulent change or development. "Social unrest"

Definition of Tempestuousness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being tempestuous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tempestuousness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tempestuousness

tempest tempest-swept tempest-tossed tempest-tost tempest in a teapot tempested tempesting tempestite tempestites tempestivities

tempestivity tempests tempests in teapots tempestuous tempestuously tempestuousness (current term) tempi tempics tempietto tempiettos

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Literary usage of Tempestuousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Scotland, from the Union to the Abolition of the Heritable by John Struthers (1828)
"... who, notwithstanding the tempestuousness of the night, found a most agreeable amusement in securing the great quantities of provisions, ammunition, ..."

2. Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West by Alexander Stewart (1883)
"A FINER winter [January 1871] never was known all over the West Highlands and Hebrides. Some tempestuousness is to be looked for at this season, ..."

3. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"tempestuousness [tem.pcs'-chu-ua nes], ». Tiempo proceloso, tempestad. Templar [tcm'-plar],«. 1. Templario, miembro de cierta orden de caballería, ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"SPEAKER, — Not long after my last to you from before Waterford, — by reason of the tempestuousness of the weather ..."

5. The History of Scotland, from the Union to the Abolition of the Heritable by John Struthers (1828)
"... who, notwithstanding the tempestuousness of the night, found a most agreeable amusement in securing the great quantities of provisions, ammunition, ..."

6. Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West by Alexander Stewart (1883)
"A FINER winter [January 1871] never was known all over the West Highlands and Hebrides. Some tempestuousness is to be looked for at this season, ..."

7. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"tempestuousness [tem.pcs'-chu-ua nes], ». Tiempo proceloso, tempestad. Templar [tcm'-plar],«. 1. Templario, miembro de cierta orden de caballería, ..."

8. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"SPEAKER, — Not long after my last to you from before Waterford, — by reason of the tempestuousness of the weather ..."

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