storm and stress

storm and stress
noun Usage: often capitalized both Ss Date: 1855 Sturm und Drang

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  • storm and stress — noun Usage: often capitalized both Ss Etymology: translation of German sturm und drang : sturm und drang * * * storm and stress, = Sturm und Drang. (Cf. ↑Sturm und Drang) * * * another term for Sturm und Drang …   Useful english dictionary

  • Storm-and-stress period — Storm Storm, n. [AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel. stormr; and perhaps to Gr. ? assault, onset, Skr. s? to flow, to hasten, or perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf. {Stratum}). [root]166.] 1. A violent disturbance of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Storm and Stress (disambiguation) — Storm and Stress may refer to *Storm and Stress, the English translation of Sturm und Drang , a German literary movement that emphasized the volatile emotional life of the individual *Storm Stress, an American indie rock trio * Storm And Stress …   Wikipedia

  • storm and stress — another term for Sturm und Drang. → storm …   English new terms dictionary

  • STORM-AND-STRESS PERIOD —    name given in the history of German literature to a period at the close of the 18th century, when the nation began to assert its freedom from artificial literary restraint, a period to which Goethe s Goetz von Berlichingen and Schiller s… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Storm and Stress. — See Sturm und Drang. [1850 55] * * * …   Universalium

  • Storm and Stress. — See Sturm und Drang. [1850 55] …   Useful english dictionary

  • Storm — Storm, n. [AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel. stormr; and perhaps to Gr. ? assault, onset, Skr. s? to flow, to hasten, or perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf. {Stratum}). [root]166.] 1. A violent disturbance of the atmosphere …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Storm center — Storm Storm, n. [AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel. stormr; and perhaps to Gr. ? assault, onset, Skr. s? to flow, to hasten, or perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf. {Stratum}). [root]166.] 1. A violent disturbance of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Storm door — Storm Storm, n. [AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel. stormr; and perhaps to Gr. ? assault, onset, Skr. s? to flow, to hasten, or perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf. {Stratum}). [root]166.] 1. A violent disturbance of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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