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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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
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
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
See how Time, consoling, Dries the saddest tears, Bids the darkest storm-clouds Pass in gentle rain; While upspring in glory, Flowers and dreams again!
From Legends and Lyrics Part 1 by Charles Dickens
Unfold, upspring, outblossom from the dust, O divinest playfellow even as we!
From Poems by Muriel Stuart
Straight to his feet It rolled, the rounded ivory, and upsprang From off the polished marble with a clang That seemed to say 'twas minded him to greet.
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
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
Allah watered a land, and upsprang a tree, v.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
He therefore, the Life-lord, The Wielder of glory, world's worship he gave him: Brim Beowulf waxed, and wide the weal upsprang Of the offspring of Scyld in the parts of the Scede-lands.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
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
"Labor is worship!"—the robin is singing; "Labor is worship!"—the wild bee is ringing; Listen! that eloquent whisper upspringing Speaks to thy soul from out nature's great heart.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Paul felt a sudden chill—the upspringing fountain of his gladness was checked in mid-leap.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
It was conspicuous for its absence of upspringing delicacy, light, arch merriment.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
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
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
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
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
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
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