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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1559-1562
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Tumultuatio(u)n, n. [e.m.E. tumultuacion (c1475), tumultuation (1631), OF tumultuation, L. tumultuātiōn-.] Commotion, disturbance. —1559 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 270.
I desyre nolder tumultuatioun, cummyr, nor stryfe, bot only the just tryal of Goddis worde 1562 Q. Kennedy in Knox VI 176.
Gif ye will nawise enter in ressoning without convocation of strangers, the haill warld may se it is bot perturbation, tumultuation, and cummer that ye seik, under the pretence of the trew setting furth of Goddes word and glorie
