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
Example Sentences
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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
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
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?
From Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
With an abrupt upspring, his throat half harsh with anger, he placed both forepaws on the table and barked at the waiter.
From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London
Thou darest not say I love, and yet thou lovest, And think'st to crush the mighty yearning down, That in thy spirit shall upspring forever!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
These are the worlds from which the Cross upsprang, and from their incorporeal limbs the Man has come forth.
From The Gnôsis of the Light by F. Lamplugh
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
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
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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
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
Nevertheless, the upspringing as by magic of the great city of Johannesberg in the midst of the dreary veldt filled Kruger's soul with loathing.
From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry
I was certainly ill, no, not ill, but completely tired out body and mind, so that even my ever upspringing soul was inert and indifferent.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
We announce to them the dawning of that day for which they have so hopefully and so bravely waited, the upspringing of those seeds that they and their compeers have sown.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
It would not be death—that is the relief of weaker natures—but relentless life—life full of those torturing agonies that trample every upspringing joy from the heart.
From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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
Above the beäten mwold upsprung The driven doust, a-spreadën light, An' on the new-leav'd thorn, a-hung, Wer wool a-quiv'rèn white; An' corn, a sheenèn bright, did bow, On slopèn Meldon's zunny brow.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
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
Wistfulness upsprung as I reviewed my empty life, but rude reality suddenly uprose and obliterated ideality.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin
But probably they each had had their chance of love, and the old bitterness upsprung that mine had not fallen athwart my pathway.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin
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