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truculence

noun
/ˈtrʌk.jə.ləns/US

Etymology

From French truculence, from Latin truculentia.

  1. derived from truculentia
  2. borrowed from truculence

Definitions

  1. The state of being truculent

    The state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity.

    • To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence.
    • He was huge in all that he did, and his benevolence was even more overpowering than his truculence.
    • Dundy’s fists were clenched in front of his body and his feet were planted firm and a little apart on the floor, but the truculence in his face was modified by thin rims of white showing between green irises and upper eyelids.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA