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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:
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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 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 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 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 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 |
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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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