procellas

[ proh-sel-uhs ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. pucellas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of procellas¹

Said to be < Italian procello

Example Sentences

Cantus catenis, carmina carcere, Dolore ab ipso gaudiaque exprimis: Scintilla tu vivis sub imo Pectoris, haud metuens procellas.

From Project Gutenberg

Tempestates et procellas in illis duntaxat fluctibus concionum semper putavi Miloni esse subeundas; that is, in the tumultuously agitated assemblies: and Planc.

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"Alios jam vidi ego ventos, aliasque procellas," he would say.

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Sed Dei auxilio vndis maris illis ex aduerso tumescentibus ac reluctantibus, Buza autem regis facili, et agili cursu inter procellas labente, ac volitante, in portu Ioppæ delusis hostibus subitò affuit, sex ex Saracenis in arcu suo in nauicula percussis, ac vulneratis.

From Project Gutenberg

Qui enim, inter has rerum procellas, vel Tibi vel Academiæ defuerit, illum virtuti et literis, sibique et posteris, defuturum existimo.

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