Meanings
plural upgushes
- archaicA gushing upward.
[…] consuls, emperors, and popes, the great men of every age, have found no better way of immortalizing their memories than by the shifting, indestructible, ever new, yet unchanging, upgush and downfall of water.
1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun
Origin
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