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.

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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

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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