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Tumultuary   Listen
adjective
Tumultuary  adj.  
1.
Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." "A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry." "Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish."
2.
Restless; agitated; unquiet. "Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state."





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"Tumultuary" Quotes from Famous Books



... them all that tumultuary array fell away as from something supernatural. The words "In the name of——" were choked on the lips of the constable. He even dropped his silver-headed staff, and turned about as if to flee. As for us we watched with ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett
... before the harvest, which proved a total failure. The price of wheat, which was as low as 52s. 6d. a quarter in January, 1816, rose to 103s. 1d. in January, 1817, and to 111s. 6d. in June, 1817. And when rickburning set in as a consequence of agricultural depression, tumultuary processions as a consequence of enforced idleness in the coal districts, and a revival of Luddism as a consequence of stagnation in the various textile industries, itself due to a glut of British goods on ...
— The Political History of England - Vol XI - From Addington's Administration to the close of William - IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) • George Brodrick
... hurried away through the sunshine which was suddenly solemn to them, without uttering a word to each other: she chiefly possessed by solicitude about any reopening of his wound, he struggling with a tumultuary crowd of thoughts that were an offence against his better will. The tumult being undiminished when they were at ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... were obtruded necessarily and unnecessarily upon her; and, even for objects already known, people were induced to make use of foreign expressions and turns of speech. The German, having run wild for nearly two hundred years in an unhappy tumultuary state, went to school with the French to learn manners, and with the Romans in order to express his thoughts with propriety. But this was to be done in the mother-tongue, when the literal application of those idioms, and their half-Germanization, made both the social and business style ridiculous. ...
— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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