Word.ws English Dictionary

truculences

truculences is the plural of truculence.

Meaning of truculence

Noun

truculence (usually uncountable, plural truculences)

  1. (usually) The state of being truculent; eagerness to fight; ferocity.
    • To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence.1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, chapter 7, in Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC

Questions about truculences

What is truculences the plural of?
Truculences is the plural of truculence.

Words near truculences in the dictionary

  1. trucky
  2. truckyard
  3. truckyards
  4. Truco
  5. truculence
  6. truculences
  7. truculencies
  8. truculency
  9. truculent
  10. truculently
  11. Trudau

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: truculences (page history and authors); truculence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “truculences.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/truculences. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.