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Definition of Tumults
1. tumult [n] - See also: tumult
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumults
Literary usage of Tumults
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eikōn Basilikē: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes by Charles, John Gauden (1824)
"Which those tumults did to so high degrees of insolence, that they spared not to
invade the honour and freedome of the two Houses, menacing, reproaching, ..."
2. Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson (1874)
"Theodosius, a fanatical monk, who had already excited tumults in the council,
returned to Jerusalem ; and having ingratiated himself with Eudocia, ..."
3. The History of the Church Missionary Society: Its Environment, Its Men and by Eugene Stock (1899)
"So the English Church God " in Time of War and tumults." China knows not " the
King history 1 teaches the English Nation to approach the Almighty of all ..."
4. History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope (1853)
"A most thorough contrast to the popular tumults at Boston and some other cities was
... Besides the popular tumults, — besides the General Congress, ..."
5. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"clamation to prevent such tumults, they being set on foot and \ fomented by ...
and for your effectual care in suppressing those rebellious tumults set on ..."