Tempestuosity

TEMPESTUOSITY, [Tempeſtuoſitas, L.] Stormineſs.

One wise provision against this is the expansion and excitement caused by this very calorific action, which is certainly the cause of the ocean’s fluidity; but it is no cause of the billow’s tempestuosity or upheaving of that element.

Moreover he is entangled in the braid and gimp meshes of a fair and frail milliner, who loves him devotedly—is distracted by jealousy, and in the tenderness and tempestuosity of her aspirations and exasperations equally ignores the existence of the letter h.

The tempestuosity of the leader displayed itself in his conducting of this composition, for he brought out his brass in a manner to make the audience almost cry out for mercy.

The Leader is not a cockle-shell, and the deep in the last week has exhausted its tempestuosity.

The South Shetlands gave them a final taste of their tempestuosity, by keeping the ship a week in getting out of the little harbour; […]

These conditions shaped Spinoza’s youth in Kayser’s novel, where he wrote: “Baruch’s Jünglingsjahre sind von außen und innen mit Sturm erfüllt” (Baruch’s younger years are filled with tempestuosity from the inside and from the outside).

I am an enigmatic convolution / of paradoxical harmonics / strong tenderness / peaceful tempestuosity / triumphant humility / and childish genius / wrapped up in / innocent womanly femininity and grace / […]