Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To leap up; spring up. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), l. 3283.
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- verb intransitive To
leap up;spring up.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I reckon thee'll do, lad," was all he said; but Ishmael felt his heart give an upleap of triumph; he knew he had made his first conquest.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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Could feel within his soul upleap and soar the sacred flame;
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World of Becoming assumes the intense form which we call genius: even to read their poems is to feel the beating of a heart, the upleap of a joy, greater than anything that we have known.
Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915
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Serbia; the renascence of Russia; the wonderful upleap to the needs of the times by Great, and still more by Greater Britain; and, not least, the bracing of the loins of our closest Allies just across the water.
Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Louis Raemaekers 1912
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Becoming assumes the intense form which we call genius: even to read their poems is to feel the beating of a heart, the upleap of
Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Evelyn Underhill 1908
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I felt a great upleap in my heart, and said to myself, now I am at rest and glad; I will never doubt her prophecies again.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872
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