blossoming

comparative more blossoming · superlative most blossoming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of blossom

plural blossomings

1. The act or process by which something blossoms.

   “The Vagrants” begins on March 21, 1979 — the spring equinox — which is this careful writer’s way of telling us that a long winter of privation and darkness may be giving way, at last, to the blossomings of spring.

   2009 March 8, Pico Iyer, “Crimes of Innocence”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2017