Tumult meaning

Noun: tumult

Pronunciation: (t(y)oo,mult)

Tumult meaning:

• Violent agitation. Synonyms: turmoil, agitation
• A state of commotion and noise and confusion. Synonyms: garboil, uproar
• The act of making a noisy disturbance. Synonyms: commotion, ruckus, ruction

Quotations: Kate Chopin – 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!

Thomas Paine – A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Dante Alighieri – There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

Sample sentences:

• Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.
• I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
• Be afraid, if you have any fear, other than the Fear of God. Afraid of fear, and living in fear, the mind is held in tumult.
• 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.
• 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?