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 Victor, Frances Fuller
And Commerce, universal king, Has followed with unnumbered needs, And scatters everywhere the seeds Of towns that in a night upspring.
From Fleurs De Lys, and Other Poems by Weir, Arthur
"Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.
From The Summons by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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 London, Jack
There, marking o'er his farm's expanding ring New fleeces whiten and new fruits upspring.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 by Various
Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!
From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles
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
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 Lamplugh, F.
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
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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
And then the upspringing of that blessed breeze off the land that saved it for her.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
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 Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
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 Tracy, Louis
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 Lowry, Edward P.
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 Hooper, James
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 Naylor, Robert
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 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
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 Munro, Neil
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
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 Milman, Henry Hart
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