Meaning of troublous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a liquid: thick, muddy, full of sediment.
   obsolete
2. Troubled, confused.
   archaic, literary
3. Causing trouble; troublesome, vexatious.
   archaic, literary

Examples

“On thother side they saw the warlike Mayd / Al in her snow-white smocke, with locks unbowned, / Threatning the point of her avenging blaed; / That with so troublous terror they were all dismayd.”

“The troublous Day has brawled itself to rest: no lives yet lost but that of one warhorse.”

“By and by he fell into a troublous sleep—it seemed that he was going to be stoned, and then he was in battle, and then shipwrecked in the water–[…]”

“the mystery, the pervasive melancholy, the vaguely troublous forecast and retrospect which possess the mind in contemplating this sequestered spot, unhallowed save by the sense of a common humanity [...]”

“The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?”

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