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fount
1[ fount ]
fount
2[ fount, font ]
noun
fount
1/ faʊnt; fɒnt /
fount
2/ faʊnt /
noun
- poetic.a spring or fountain
- source or origin
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fount1
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Example Sentences
The Vatican Bank, a fount of scandal for 40 years, is being investigated for money laundering.
My sister was my subject and a brutally unending fount of feeling.
Republicans treat government as the source of most collective ills, Democrats as the fount of most collective benefits.
O for a soda-fount spouting up boldlyFrom every hot lamp-post against the hot sky!
Now armed mobs fought around the temple each day and a new band of priests guarded the sacred fount.
But the fount of inspiration, the source of temporary elation and strength, had not been exhausted by Prometheus.
He opened the fount of Castalia, hidden by wild branches, and cleared the grove of laurels of thorns.
Mayo had been a man of the open—of wide horizons, drinking from the fount of all the air under the heavens.
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