upspring
Americanverb (used without object)
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to spring up.
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to come into being or existence; arise.
Prosperity began to upspring after the war.
noun
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growth or development.
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a coming into existence; origin.
verb
noun
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a leap forwards or upwards
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the act of coming into existence
Etymology
Origin of upspring
before 1000; (v.) Middle English upspringen, Old English upspringan; (noun) Middle English; Old English upspringe. See up-, spring
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Behold I touch his heart, and there upspring Blooms to his cheeks, and flashes to his eyes; His scornful lips upon the instant sing, And all his pulses leap with ecstasies.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor
The Bishop spoke with apparent vexation, but his heart had bounded in the upspring of a great relief.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
"Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.
From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
To feel the new life flutter mystic wing; Like to a lark to feel one's soul upspring, Transpierce the very limit of the sky, And toss its challenge to Eternity!
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
There was the banded hair over the eyes, the slightly drooping mouth, the peculiar upspring of the eyebrow arch—the Queen of Spades in person, as Indiman had said.
From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen
Amazed, upsprang Achilles, clash'd aloud125 His palms together, and thus, sad, exclaim'd.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!
From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle
Dame Venus, awakened from her sleep, From her bed upsprang in haste.
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
She upsprang, she rose upright, in his selle she sate in sight, By her love she overcame.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She upsprang, she rose upright,—in his selle she sate in sight, By her love she overcame.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
Thou givest the word, and the westering Star, The Hesper who watched o'er Night's upspringing, Changing his course, shines eastward far, Phosphor now, for the Sun's inbringing.
From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin
Measures so violent and radical could hardly have been prompted by anything less alarming than the upspringing of that indomitable conviction which worked at the heart of the people.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
The simple flowers upspringing, the Gothic lettering, the panelling, and a narrow border of such design as suggests rose-windows or other lace-like carving.
From The Tapestry Book by Mrs. Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee
Among all the good things that may come in the new upspringing of this artistic interest, the young women in the rural realm have a distinct function.
From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow
Their restless upspringing life thrust my paralysis aside as an upspringing young tree cleaves the boulder which would hamper it.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
Behind, In diamond light, upsprung the dazzling Cones Of Pyramids, as far surpassing Earth's As Heaven than Earth is fairer.
From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Then from the agitated deep upsprung The legion of Apsarasas, so named That to the watery element they owed Their being.
From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman
Fond helianthus turned her fervent face, Meek antirrhinum paled and grew apace; Late dandelions, robed in cloth of gold, With golden-rod, upsprung from out the mould, And pensive, gold-eyed daisies pranked the wold.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung; Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
He ceased: from all around upsprung A murmur of applause; For well had truth and freedom's tongue Maintained their holy cause.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
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