Obs. Also 5 turbulaunce, turblaunce, 6 trublance, 7 trubellence. [a. OF. trublance, troblance (13th c. in Godef.), f. trubler, trobler to TROUBLE. With the earlier examples cf. the β-forms of TROUBLE; turbulaunce is conformed to L. turbulentia.] The action of troubling or state of being troubled; disturbance; trouble, sorrow, pain. (In later use only Sc.)
c. 1400. Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1907), 287. With grete ioye … of the blessed presence of her lorde; but … with grete drede and turbulaunce of his aweie passynge.
c. 1425. Orolog Sapient., iv., in Anglia, X. 353/14. The periles of turblaunce of þis noyous worlde.
15[?]. Aberdeen Regr. (Jam.). Conwickit for the trublance of him in wordis, calland him koffcaryll one the oppin gait.
1627. Dumbarton Burgh Rec., in J. Irving, Hist. Dumbartonshire (1860), 475. The sd Rt M’Cawlay … to pay unlaw, and find caution for trubellance in tyme coming.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d, iv. (1827), 127. The tipsy sutors … wi’ their iron grapples, grippit His flesh, and unto troublance nippit, Garrin’ him scream.
