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Outpouring   /ˌaʊtpˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
Outpouring

noun
1.
A natural flow of ground water.  Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, spring.
2.
A sudden rapid flow (as of water).  Synonyms: flush, gush.  "There was a little gush of blood" , "She attacked him with an outpouring of words"
3.
The pouring forth of a fluid.  Synonyms: discharge, run.
4.
The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written).  Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, onslaught.  "A bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"
5.
A large flow.  Synonyms: flood, overflow.






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"Outpouring" Quotes from Famous Books



... and buried her face in her hands. The first sorrow was evidently also the keenest; and I felt my own eyelids moist as I watched this outpouring of the mother's anguish. After all, here was grief beyond the power of wealth to assuage: here was sorrow deeper than any ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424, New Series, February 14, 1852 • Various

... February 25, 1895, at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, and was the occasion of a greater outpouring of colored people than had taken place in Washington since the unveiling of the Lincoln emancipation statue in 1878. The body was taken from Cedar Hill to the church at half-past nine in the morning; and from ...
— Frederick Douglass - A Biography • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

... the nations of the earth is a large part of the background of the picture. Through Israel's advancement under the new order, every other nation is to come back to God. The outpouring of the Spirit upon Israel is to be followed by an outpouring upon all flesh. There are the two outpourings of God's Spirit in these old prophetic pages. This will be followed by a universal, voluntary coming to Israel for religious instruction. She becomes the teacher of the nations regarding ...
— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon

... others that the governor had sent him in place of troops, knowing him to be sufficient in himself. Boys ran along in open-mouthed admiration, pattering their bare feet in the thick dust, as Morgan drove his captives down the inside of the hitching racks; the outpouring of citizens, parasites, outcasts of the earth, swept after in ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden

... colonizing enterprises of the Northmen did not cease until the eleventh century was far advanced. The consequences of this wonderful outpouring of the Scandinavian peoples were so important and lasting that the movement has well been compared to the great migration of their German kinsmen in the fifth and sixth centuries. Europe is a second time inundated by the ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers


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