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rumorous, a.|ˈruːmərəs|
Also 6 rumerous, rumorus, -ouse.
[f. rumour n. + -ous.]
1. Making a loud confused sound; resounding. Now arch.
1550T. Hoby Trav. (Camden) 38 A river..makethe a great rumerous noise untill he cumethe into the middes of the vale. 1556J. Heywood Spider & Fly lx. 4 Take peace with flies they cride. At which rumorus rore [etc.]. 1604Drayton Moses Map Miracles 62 b, The rumorous sound Of the sterne billowes. 1869Lowell Cathedral 208 Bygone grandeurs, faintly rumorous now Upon the mind's horizon, as of storm Brooding its dreamy thunders far aloof. 1889W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin 68 Wandering of yore in forests rumorous, Beneath the flaming eyeballs of the night. 1897F. Thompson New Poems 52 In days whose feet are rumorous on the air. 1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. xii. 89 The rumorous town still hummed; the sky was faintly coloured. 1970I. Murdoch Fairly Honourable Defeat II. xix. 371 It was dark outside, windy rainy rumorous darkness coming from far away.
2. Of the nature of rumour; rumoured. rare.
1605Stow Ann. 1401 The Lorde Keeper, and other Lordes of the Counsell,..perswaded against rumorous talke of the Earle of Essex. a1639Wotton Reliq. (1672) 377 This Bearer will tell you what we hear of certain rumorous Surmises.
3. Full of rumours or reports. rare—1.
1641T. Jordan Walks of Islington v. i, Your husband..Shall..to the bold ears of the rumorous world, Declare his errour, and your innocence.
Hence rumoˈrosity, stir, public outcry. rare.
1906Joyce Let. 25 Sept. (1966) II. 166 Ibsen..seems to have disclaimed some of the rumorosity attaching to A Doll's House. |