All 7 Uses of
tumult
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The evolutions of the parade; the tumult of the battle; the flourish of old heroic music, heard thirty years before—such scenes and sounds, perhaps, were all alive before his intellectual sense.
Chpt Intr.tumult = great disturbance
- …if such revelations be received without tumult, and acknowledged not so often by an uttered sympathy as by silence, an inarticulate breath, and here and there a word to indicate that all is understood;
Chpt 9tumult = disturbance
- A dusky tumult would flap its wings from one house to another.
Chpt 12
- The moment that he did so, there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying through all his veins, as if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half-torpid system.
Chpt 12tumultuous = turbulent (fast and disordered)
- Then ensued a murmur and half-hushed tumult, as if the auditors, released from the high spell that had transported them into the region of another's mind, were returning into themselves, with all their awe and wonder still heavy on them.
Chpt 23tumult = disturbance
- The crowd was in a tumult.
Chpt 23tumult = confusion from a disturbance
- And once Hester was seen embroidering a baby-garment with such a lavish richness of golden fancy as would have raised a public tumult had any infant thus apparelled, been shown to our sober-hued community.
Chpt 24 *tumult = disturbance
Definition:
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(tumult as in: tumult in financial markets) confusion or disorder -- often noisy