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/blˈɑsəmɪŋ/ Listen

noun

blossoming n. The process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.

Synonyms: flowering, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence.

verb

Blossom v. i. (past & past part. blossomed; pres. part. blossoming)

To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower. "The moving whisper of huge trees that branched And blossomed."

To flourish and prosper; to develop into a superior type. "Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit."

To appear or grow as if by blossoming; to spread out rapidly.

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Etymology of 'Blossoming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blossoming" Quotes from Famous Books

... tried society and the world, and found them lacking. She was not an invalid, and she lived in seclusion from no love-disappointment. Her life was the normal blossoming of a nature introspective to a high degree, whose best thought could not ...

— Poems: Three Series, Complete • Emily Dickinson

... handsomer. Also the walls, instead of being panelled, were hung with a coarse loosely-woven stuff of green worsted with birds and trees woven into it. There were flowers in plenty stuck about the room, mostly of the yellow blossoming flag or flower-de-luce, of which I had seen plenty in all the ditches, but in the window near the door was a pot full of those same white poppies I had seen when I first woke up; and the table was all set forth with meat and drink, a big salt-cellar of pewter in the middle, ...

— A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson • William Morris

... crimson vines like trails and splashes of blood; into the streams from which the wanderers stooped to drink, fell the gold of the sycamore. From the hills they looked down upon a red and yellow world, a gorgeous bourgeoning and blossoming that put the spring to shame, a sea of splendor with here and there a dark-green isle of cedar or of pine. Day after day saw the same calm blue sky, the same blue haze, the same slow drifting of crimson and gold to earth. The ...

— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston

... seemed more thinly populated when it was known that the hand which had written "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of the Seven Gables," and "The Marble Faun" would write no more. "We carried him," said Fields, "through the blossoming orchards of Concord, and laid him down under a group of pines on a hill-side overlooking historic fields; the unfinished romance which had cost him such anxiety laid upon his coffin." And there, upon that Concord height which he has rendered world-famous, made a Delphian vale ...

— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... in the stages of a plant's growth, its budding and blossoming and seed-bearing, that this lesson has come to me: the lesson of death in its delivering power. It has come as no mere far-fetched imagery, but as one of the many voices in which God speaks, bringing strength and gladness ...

— Parables of the Cross • I. Lilias Trotter

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