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ˈboisterousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Boisterous quality; rude strength (obs.); violence, tempestuousness; rough behaviour.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxi. (1612) 153 But checked of my boystrousnesse [I] was balked with a blush. 1618Bolton Florus iii. ii. (1636) 166 The thing which most frighted the Barbarous was the sight of the elephants, as those which matcht themselves in boistrousnesse. 1656Trapp Comm. Thess. iii. 15 A stoical sourness, or an imperious boisterousness. 1726Nat. Hist. Irel. 28 The Irish sea..in regard of its boysterousness and..tempestuousness. 1873Holland A. Bonnic. iv. 71 Boys whose surplus vitality happened to lead them into boisterousness or mischief. |