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English
Etymology
From tumultuous + -ly.
Adverb
tumultuously (comparative more tumultuously, superlative most tumultuously)
- In a tumultuous manner.
1635, William Camden, “The Ninth Yeere of Her Raigne. Anno Domini, 1566, and 1567.”, in R N, transl., Annals, or, The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queen of England. , 3rd edition, London: Thomas Harper, for Benjamin Fisher, , →OCLC, 1st booke, page 69:But in the lovver Houſe ſome there vvere vvhich handled theſe things more tumultuouſly, namely, Bell and Monſon great Lavvyers, Dutton, Paul VVentvvorth, and others, vvhich rent the Authority of the Queenes Majeſty too much, […]
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a second term, Obama will confront familiar headwinds”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:But the greater truth may be that this is simply how generational and cultural change really comes to Washington—not in the flash of one man’s election, but gradually and tumultuously, with moments in which we lurch forward interrupted by stretches that drag us back.
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