Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To leap up; spring up. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), l. 3283.

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  • verb intransitive To leap up; spring up.

Etymologies

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From Middle English uplepen, equivalent to up- +‎ leap. Cognate with Dutch oplopen ("to incur, run up"), German auflaufen ("to accumulate, mount up, run aground").

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Examples

  • "I reckon thee'll do, lad," was all he said; but Ishmael felt his heart give an upleap of triumph; he knew he had made his first conquest.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • Could feel within his soul upleap and soar the sacred flame;

    Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 1916

  • World of Becoming assumes the intense form which we call genius: even to read their poems is to feel the beating of a heart, the upleap of a joy, greater than anything that we have known.

    Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915

  • Serbia; the renascence of Russia; the wonderful upleap to the needs of the times by Great, and still more by Greater Britain; and, not least, the bracing of the loins of our closest Allies just across the water.

    Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Louis Raemaekers 1912

  • Becoming assumes the intense form which we call genius: even to read their poems is to feel the beating of a heart, the upleap of

    Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • I felt a great upleap in my heart, and said to myself, now I am at rest and glad; I will never doubt her prophecies again.

    Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872

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