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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tempestuous \Tem*pes"tu*ous\, a. [L. tempestuous: cf OF
tempestueux F. temp[^e]tueux.]
Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a
tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as tempestuous weather;
a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. --
{Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly}, adv -- {Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness}, n.
They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his
tempestuous beard. --Longfellow.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tempestuousness
n : a state of wild storminess
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