Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Noise suggestive of tumult.

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Examples

  • Paleness sits on every face; confused tremor and fremescence; waxing into thunder-peals, of Fury stirred on by Fear.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Egged on by fremescence around the globe, decisions aimed at reducing international trade will have, as they did in the 1930s, counterproductive results.

    Charlottesville Blogs 2009

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  • The grumbling sound of an unhappy mob of people. (From Grandiloquent Dictionary)

    June 6, 2008

  • JM listens to the increasing fremescence leading up to the election

    March 1, 2009

  • A murmur unnoticed before

    Now hubbub that’s hard to ignore.

    A growing fremescence,

    A kind of tumescence,

    That swells to a mighty uproar.

    November 2, 2017