Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To spring up, as from the soil.
- v. To come into being; arise.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To spring up; shoot up; rise.
- n. A vertical spring; a leap in the air.
- n. An upstart; one suddenly exalted.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To spring up, rise up, originate.
- v. intransitive To come into being.
- n. obsolete An upstart.
- n. A spring or leap into the air.
- n. origin
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To spring up.
- n. obsolete An upstart.
- n. rare A spring or leap into the air.
Etymologies
- From Old English upspring ("origin, birth, rising up, springing up") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“With an abrupt upspring, his throat half harsh with anger, he placed both fore-paws on the table and barked at the waiter.”
“And were but every man minded like me, there would be an upspring”
“Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.”
“Prophets and Sibyls, the Ancestors and Ancestresses themselves, and the naked antique genii, turn into architectural members, holding that imaginary roof together, securing its seeming stability, increasing, by their gesture its upspring and its weightiness, and at the same time determining the tracks along which the eye is forced to travel.”
“The Bishop spoke with apparent vexation, but his heart had bounded in the upspring of a great relief.”
The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century
“Some day thou seest upspring a lowly, tremulous blossom,”
An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
“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?”
“And I have already shown that the Gothic Drama in England, in its upspring and through its earlier stages, was entirely the work of the Christian Church, and was purely religious in its purpose, matter, and use.”
“And today may a great beginning from a little seed upspring”
“Gothic Drama in England, in its upspring and through its earlier stages, was entirely the work of the Christian Church, and was purely religious in its purpose, matter, and use.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘upspring’.
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Anglish
Words that can replace Latinates.
frosent, gainsay, fremd, inrush, frain, huru, wordbook, wordstock, byspel, elfshine, infaru, glam and 98 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Anglo-Saxon rootwords
mote, huru, byspel, elfshine, infaru, snotor, dern, upspring, meed, lof, queem, hof and 83 more...
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out of interest
lithesome, wholesome, gruesome, tiresome, worrisome, cumbersome, lonesome, loathsome, burdensome, fearsome, wearisome, irksome and 97 more...
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AnWulf Etymology - OE upspring - origin, birth, rising up Sep 14, 2011