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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

... engender in my mind, in which it moved upwards to the second place, the rich vitality with which the name of Delaunay would suddenly be furnished, to enable it to slip down to fourth, would stimulate and fertilise my brain with a sense of bradding and blossoming life. ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... prospect of fields, woods, and hills, without being seen from the road. The house itself was a stately, formal mansion. Its light color contrasted well with the lofty pine-trees around it. But they, in turn, invested it with an air of secrecy and gloom, unrelieved by flowers or blossoming shrubs, of which there were no traces near the house, although in the rear there was a garden so formally regular that it looked like ...

— Trumps • George William Curtis

... from childhood's hour My fondest hopes would not decay: I never loved a tree or flower Which was the first to fade away! The garden, where I used to delve Short-frocked, still yields me pinks in plenty; The pear-tree that I climbed at twelve, I see still blossoming, at twenty. ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 4 (of 4) • Various

... through the shopping district and lingered for a moment at the edge of Portsmouth Square. My eyes rested affectionately on the clean-cut lawns and blossoming shrubs. Then I turned to the skeptic, but before I could speak, he had dismissed it ...

— The Lure of San Francisco - A Romance Amid Old Landmarks • Elizabeth Gray Potter and Mabel Thayer Gray

... entered into that terminable contract now recognised explicitly by the State—these two were very far from sharing in the usual heavy dulness of mere materialists. The world, for them, beat with one ardent life blossoming in flower and beast and man, a torrent of beautiful vigour flowing from a deep source and irrigating all that moved or felt. Its romance was the more appreciable because it was comprehensible to the minds that sprang from it; there were mysteries in it, but ...

— Lord of the World • Robert Hugh Benson

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