[ad. L. truculentia savageness, ferocity, f. truculentus TRUCULENT: see -ENCE.] The condition or quality of being truculent; fierceness, savageness.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Truculence, Truculentness, cruelty, savageness, sternness.
1826. Franklin Repository, 23 Dec., 2/4. What retaliations may yet be provoked by the truculence of the Orange party, manifestly disposed as they are to shed blood, it is not for us to anticipate.
1877. D. M. Wallace, Russia, vi. 83. The entire absence of obsequiousness or truculence in his manner.
1890. Gladstone, Sp. Ho. Comm., 28 Nov. He sometimes accompanies the temperance of language with a truculence of action.
