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Definition of Tumult |
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Tumult
The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion. Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements. Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions. To make a tumult; to be in great commotion. Related Definitions: Accompanied, Agitation, And, As, Be, Commotion, Confused, Confusion, Excitement, Great, High, Hurly-Burly, In, Irregular, Make, Motion, Multitude, Noise, Noisy, Of, Or, The, To, Tumult, Uproar, Violent, With |
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Tumult Quotations
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? Charles de Gaulle Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. Georges Bataille But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! Kate Chopin A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. John Millington Synge Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved. Marie de France I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army. Richard Harding Davis |
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Tumult Translations
tumult in Afrikaans is lawaai tumult in Dutch is herrie, rel, roerigheid, getier tumult in Finnish is mellakka tumult in Latin is tumultus tumult in Spanish is tumulto |
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