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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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
Unfold, upspring, outblossom from the dust, O divinest playfellow even as we!
From Poems by Muriel Stuart
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
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
The King doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson
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
Dame Venus, awakened from her sleep, From her bed upsprang in haste.
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
“These are the worlds from which the Cross upsprang; out of these incorporeal Members did the Man arise.”
From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead
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
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
But perhaps that very individuality that we blame country life for overdeveloping may be the favorable ground for the upspringing of this noble human blossom.
From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow
The lethal side of the created world had become exquisite in his eyes, and the beauty of it was derived from its everlasting corruption, not from the eternal upspringing of life.
From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
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
I am only an old man who has watched the upspringing of a new and terrible force in European politics.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy
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
They swam into her recognition like wraiths upsprung, as it were, from the sand itself or exhaled upon a breath from the sea: at first she could not credit her vision.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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
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
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
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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