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Title: Word of the Day for Friday, September 21, 2012
Post by: Bondai on September 21, 2012, 12:58:42 PM

strepitous \STREP-i-tuhs\, adjective:

boisterous; noisy. :yahoo:

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But what strepitous sounds, what harmonious tumult diverts my attention to another part ?
-- José Francisco de Isla, The History of the Famous Preacher, Friar Gerund de Campazas

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Here is no idyllic meditative retreat from the strepitous city but a scene of virile action—fields sounding with human labor, vibrating with human energy.
-- Beulah B. Amram, "Swinburne and Carducci," The Yale Review

Strepitous stems from the Latin word strepit which meant "noise."