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The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.

hip. Conduct of armies is a prince's art. Waller. Attacked the Spaniards . . . with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed. Robertson.

Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

er; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury. Shak.

To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective. Spenser.

To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish. [Obs.] His harmful club he gan to hurtle high. Spenser.

Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity. "The precipitation of inexperience." Rambler.

To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice. Like to an entered tide, they all rush by. Shak.

The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.

y or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict. Milto…