[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Boisterous quality; rude strength (obs.); violence, tempestuousness; rough behavior.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxxi. (1612), 153. But checked of my boystrousnesse [I] was balked with a blush.
1618. Bolton, Florus, III. ii. (1636), 166. The thing which most frighted the Barbarous was the sight of the elephants, as those which matcht themselves in boistrousnesse.
1656. Trapp, Comm. Thess. iii. 15. A stoical sourness, or an imperious boisterousness.
1726. Nat. Hist. Irel., 28. The Irish sea … in regard of its boysterousness and … tempestuousness.
1873. Holland, A. Bonnic., iv. 71. Boys whose surplus vitality happened to lead them into boisterousness or mischief.
