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new-sprung

American  
[noo-spruhng, nyoo-] / ˈnuˈsprʌŋ, ˈnyu- /

adjective

  1. newly or suddenly come into existence.


Etymology

Origin of new-sprung

First recorded in 1585–95; new + sprung

Example Sentences

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Outside, the wind was blowing over a bed of new-sprung mint in the garden, and was suggestively fragrant.

From Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

FLOW, Waters! spread afar my zones of green,      So I with salt baptismal waves may haunt And bathe the new-sprung continents terrene,      Hearing my freshets and young rivers chaunt.

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George

A piece of information reached me, that, if true, must sweep all these new-sprung theories out my mind.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

The night had grown sensibly colder, and noisy with the rushing sweep of a new-sprung wind.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

Alone in the cottonwood grove, with little patches of moonlight filtering through onto the new-sprung grass, the two men faced each other.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)