(see the adj.) adv. [f. TRUCULENT + -LY2.] In a truculent manner; savagely.

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1654.  Vilvain, Epit. Ess., I. 86. Most truculently butchered.

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1837.  Carlyle, Misc. Ess., Diam. Neckl., xiv. (1872), V. 186. How fares it with his Eminence … at times truculently stamping?

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1868.  M. E. G. Duff, Pol. Surv., 179. Often beaten … from the firm land, he always returned again, truculently fought again.

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  So Truculentness (rare0) = TRUCULENCE.

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1727.  [see TRUCULENCE].

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