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truculence en · NOUN

From French truculence, from Latin truculentia.

(uncountable, usually) The state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity.
- Trump’s truculence on the world stage: “Everyone kowtows to Iran because they’re crazy. Now we have our own bit of crazy.” 2020, Bret Stephens, “Meet a Secret Trump Voter”, in New York Times:
- To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence. 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, chapter 7, in Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC:
- He was huge in all that he did, and his benevolence was even more overpowering than his truculence. 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:
- Dundy’s fists were clenched in front of his body and his feet were planted firm and a little apart on the floor, but the truculence in his face was modified by thin rims of white showing between green irises and upper eyelids. 1930, Dashiell Hammet, chapter 8, in The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y.; London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 97:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
truculency		alternative	lexicographic
truculences	Number=Plur		lexicographic