Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To spring up, as from the soil.
- intransitive verb To come into being; arise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To spring up; shoot up; rise.
- noun A vertical spring; a leap in the air.
- noun An upstart; one suddenly exalted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To spring up.
- noun obsolete An upstart.
- noun rare A spring or leap into the air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
spring up ,rise up ,originate . - verb intransitive To come into being.
- noun obsolete An
upstart . - noun A spring or leap into the air.
- noun
origin
Etymologies
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Examples
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With an abrupt upspring, his throat half harsh with anger, he placed both fore-paws on the table and barked at the waiter.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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With an abrupt upspring, his throat half harsh with anger, he placed both fore-paws on the table and barked at the waiter.
Chapter 17 1917
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And were but every man minded like me, there would be an upspring
Urania 1909
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"Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.
The Summons 1906
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Prophets and Sibyls, the Ancestors and Ancestresses themselves, and the naked antique genii, turn into architectural members, holding that imaginary roof together, securing its seeming stability, increasing, by their gesture its upspring and its weightiness, and at the same time determining the tracks along which the eye is forced to travel.
The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics Vernon Lee 1895
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And were but every man minded like me, there would be an upspring
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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The Bishop spoke with apparent vexation, but his heart had bounded in the upspring of a great relief.
The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century 1891
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Some day thou seest upspring a lowly, tremulous blossom,
An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Jos�� Rizal 1878
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Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia?
Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877
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And I have already shown that the Gothic Drama in England, in its upspring and through its earlier stages, was entirely the work of the Christian Church, and was purely religious in its purpose, matter, and use.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
AnWulf commented on the word upspring
Etymology - OE upspring - origin, birth, rising up
September 15, 2011