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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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
"Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.
From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Unfold, upspring, outblossom from the dust, O divinest playfellow even as we!
From Poems by Muriel Stuart
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
He ended; at the sound alarm'd upsprang The King, and roused his herald.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
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
Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!
From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle
“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
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
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
It was of tin only, and in the eyes of the sailor gazing at it with upspringing hope it seemed frail, insecurely fastened, perhaps rotten.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
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
An emblem fair of Lavengro, Thou art in all thy brave upbringing; Obscure, he wandered to and fro, Wrote joy on earth by faith upspringing.
From Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 by James Hooper
Stories like these would take us trailing across the country from Maine to California and would leave us bewildered before the upspringing of new life everywhere in the energies of the young women of America.
From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow
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
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
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
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
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
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