Meaning of tempestuosity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being tempestuous.
   uncountable
2. Someone or something that is tempestuous.
   countable, rare

Examples

“TEMPESTUOSITY, [Tempeſtuoſitas, L.] Stormineſs.”

“One wise provision against this is the expansion and excitement caused by this very calorific action, which is certainly the cause of the ocean’s fluidity; but it is no cause of the billow’s tempestuosity or upheaving of that element.”

“Moreover he is entangled in the braid and gimp meshes of a fair and frail milliner, who loves him devotedly—is distracted by jealousy, and in the tenderness and tempestuosity of her aspirations and exasperations equally ignores the existence of the letter h.”

“The tempestuosity of the leader displayed itself in his conducting of this composition, for he brought out his brass in a manner to make the audience almost cry out for mercy.”

“The Leader is not a cockle-shell, and the deep in the last week has exhausted its tempestuosity.”

“The South Shetlands gave them a final taste of their tempestuosity, by keeping the ship a week in getting out of the little harbour; […]”

“These conditions shaped Spinoza’s youth in Kayser’s novel, where he wrote: “Baruch’s Jünglingsjahre sind von außen und innen mit Sturm erfüllt” (Baruch’s younger years are filled with tempestuosity from the inside and from the outside).”

“I am an enigmatic convolution / of paradoxical harmonics / strong tenderness / peaceful tempestuosity / triumphant humility / and childish genius / wrapped up in / innocent womanly femininity and grace / […]”

“Given the sweeping and sublime tempestuosity of Wagner’s compositions, one would be somewhat courageous to tell him that!”

“Mr. Theodore Tilton’s first novel, ‘Tempest Tossed,’ (Sheldon) promises to be a very powerful work, of the Hugo school; some think that this radical tempestuosity has found his forte in fiction.”

“It must be remembered that one reason for the Muskingum and Kanawha being made such general subjects of Federal anxiety is that its waters are here and there found to be saline. This gives added fury to their tempestuosities; and but for oil, and appropriations for slack-water and a coffer-dam or so, their wild and ungovernable fury in rolling down to the gentle Gulf of Mexico and the inviolate sea would destroy utterly all the efforts and bankrupt all the corporations engaged in protecting and leveeing the Father of Waters.”

“The Greek race regard the orthodox Church in a double sense: it is an anchor of salvation, in a religious and a national point of view. It has harbored them safely, as a Christian people and as a nation, amidst all the tempestuosities of revolution.”

“[…] once more braved the dangerous waters of the canal, and navigated his fleet through the frowning tempestuosities of the Mediterranean safely home without sustaining the loss of anything more than time and money.”

“A TOUCH of temperament is added to the tempestuosities of the current fiction season by Margaret Kennedy whose “The Constant Nymph” (Doubleday, Page) is an admirable story of the addition of talent to a set smug artistic climbers in London.”

“Staid Boston society brought up on the austere tempestuosities of Koussevitzky, were aghast at their visitor's Dionysian frenzies of whirling, jumping and crouching.”

“Some will say that “Headland” is thin in story, and so it is if cloak-and-dagger tempestuosities are the desiderata; […]”

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