Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being stormful; stormy character or condition.
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- noun The quality of being
stormful .
Etymologies
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stormful + -ness
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Examples
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Only at rare intervals did the young soul burst-forth into fire-eyed rage, and, with a stormfulness (_Ungestüm_) under which the boldest quailed, assert that he too had Rights of Man, or at least of
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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