[f. STORMY + -NESS.] Stormy quality.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xi. 180. The storminesse thereof [sc. of the wind].
1631. T. Powell, Tom of All Trades, 3. The stormynesse of the sea of state.
1796. Ann. Reg. (Otridge), Hist. Europe, 198/2. The storminess of the weather increased to such a degree, that … the French admiral determined to quit his position.
1894. Jeaffreson, Bk. Recoll., I. ii. 27. Schoolboys … never feared the capricious storminess of his freakish … irritability.
1913. R. H. Gretton, Mod. Hist. Engl. People, I. xii. 284. If the shock had added to the storminess of events, it had at least been prevented from ending the year in chaos.
