a. [= mod.F. torrentueux (neologism in Littré), f. L. torrēnt-em TORRENT: see -UOUS, and cf. tempestuous.] Torrent-like, impetuous.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sk.-bk., vii. Fr. Fash. Novels, Wks. 1900, V. 84. My affairs whirl onwards together in such a torrentuous [orig. torrentueux] galopade.
1897. F. Thompson, in Academy, 6 Feb., 180/2. Womanly and unstayed of nature, torrentuous of golden talk.
