[f. as prec.: see -ENCY.] = prec.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 111. The truculencie of the Beare.
1630. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlem. (1641), 88. It was Saint Augustine’s prayer unto God that he would root out of him all … truculencie.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr., XIV. iv. (1864), IX. 188. They have more of Juvenal … or his pitilessness, of his bitterness, it may be said of his truculency, than of Catullus.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVII. v. IV. 556. Friedrich’s First Campaign … will by no means check the Austrian truculencies.
