noun
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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.
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From French truculence, from Latin truculentia.