Now rare. [f. as prec.: see next and -ENCY.] Turbulent state, disturbed condition.
1607. Puritan, I. ii. 61. I … for my part wish a Turbulency in the world.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., vi. 80. Since the turbulency of these times, the same moderation shines in you.
1671. Milton, P. R., IV. 462. Like turbulencies in the affairs of men,… They oft fore-signifie and threaten ill.
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 512/1. Where there is need of quieting the Turbulency and Effervescency of the Humours.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist., XVI. ii. (1827), VI. 349. Endeavour to calm the turbulency of their minds.
1831. Poe, Bells, iii. What a tale of terror their turbulency tells!
