† ˈtroublance Obs.
Also 5 turbulaunce, turblaunce, 6 trublance, 7 trubellance.
[a. OF. trublance, troblance (13th c. in Godef.), f. trubler, trobler to trouble. With the earlier examples cf. the β-forms of trouble; turbulaunce is conformed to L. turbulentia.]
The action of troubling or state of being troubled; disturbance; trouble, sorrow, pain. (In later use only Sc.)
| c 1400 Love Bonavent. Mirr. (1907) 287 With grete ioye..of the blessed presence of her lorde; but..with grete drede and turbulaunce of his aweie passynge. c 1425 Orolog. Sapient. iv. in Anglia X. 353/44 The periles of turbulaunce of þis noyous worlde. 15.. Aberdeen Regr. (Jam.), Conwickit for the trublance of him in wordis, calland him koffcaryll one the oppin gait. 1627 Dumbarton Burgh Rec. in J. Irving Hist. Dumbartonshire (1860) 475 The sd R{supt} M'Cawlay..to pay unlaw, and find caution for trubellance in tyme coming. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd iv. (1827) 127 The tipsy sutors..wi' their iron grapples, grippit His flesh, and unto troublance nippit, Garrin' him scream. |