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Boisterousness

noun
1.
A turbulent and stormy state of the sea.
2.
The property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained.





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"Boisterousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... a considerable regard for Primitive Methodism; in some respects we admire its operations; and for the good it does we are quite willing to tolerate all the erratic earnestness, musical effervescence, and prayerful boisterousness ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus
... It is true that competent judges have questioned the accuracy of M. La Frette's idiom, but his sentiments are unimpeachable. The necessary corrective was not wanting, for a weekly journal of high culture described my poor handiwork as "Snobbery and Snippets." There was a boisterousness—almost a brutality—about the phrase which deterred me from reading the review; but I am fain to admit that there was a certain rude justice in ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell


Words linked to "Boisterousness" :   boisterous, racketiness, storminess, noisiness


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