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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outpouring
noun
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▪ Despite an outpouring of editorials and television programmes, he is under virtually no pressure to change his mind on that decision.
▪ He started with the romantic composers, but shed them one by one as their emotional outpourings became too oppressive.
▪ It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine.
▪ It is possible that twelfth-century laymen regarded his outpourings with an indulgent smile.
▪ She needed more than a non-committal grunt in answer to her outpourings.
▪ The constant outpourings of devotion from the Soviet people reached him through the media.
▪ We're too busy listening to the outpourings of others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
outpouring

outpouring \out"pour`ing\, n. An unrestrained expression (of emotion, feeling); as, an outpouring of grief over the death of Princess Diana.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outpouring

mid-15c., "a pouring out," from out + infinitive of pour (v.). From 1757 as "action of pouring out," originally transferred, of things spiritual; sense of "that which is poured out" (again, usually transferred) is from 1827.

Wiktionary
outpouring

n. The sudden flowing of a large amount of something.

WordNet
outpouring
  1. n. a natural flow of ground water [syn: spring, fountain, outflow, natural spring]

  2. a sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words" [syn: flush, gush]

  3. the pouring forth of a fluid [syn: discharge, run]

  4. the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) [syn: barrage, onslaught]

  5. a large flow [syn: flood, overflow]

Usage examples of "outpouring".

It had been all he could do to keep King Cole moving, not to draw rein and take Garnet back into his arms, kissing her awake and assuaging his discomfort in an outpouring of relief.

What would this master cracksman, this polished wielder of the oxy-acetylene blow-pipe, this expert in toxicology, microscopy and physics think of his callow outpourings!

God of mercy, before Whose door the quintessence of mercy hath bowed down, and round the sanctuary of Whose Cause loving-kindness, in its inmost spirit, hath circled, we beseech Thee, entreating Thine ancient grace, and seeking Thy present favor, that Thou mayest have mercy upon all who are the manifestations of the world of being, and deny them not the outpourings of Thy grace in Thy days.

Sincerely, Leslie Slote William Tuttle could readily see in the enclosed memorandum, scrawled on legal-length yellow sheets, the exasperated outpouring of a subordinate quitting his job in anger.

The sound welled unbidden from her throat, a rich low outpouring of love and sympathy for the sallow twitching youth who lay on the yellowish sheets, his eyes wild, his hands tensing into claws.

TANU strained to mobilize Tanzanians behind the Arusha principles, this homespun socialist vision evoked a spontaneous outpouring of enthusiasm from the outside.

There are also reflex liberal arguments that anything freer is by definition good and meritocratic arguments that the outpouring of children from the lower classes should be stemmed.

She encompasses all the Nest and all the subordinate Nests as well in Her overflowing outpouring of love.

In contrast to the rather subdued reaction of the printmakers to the first battle, a great outpouring of prints celebrated the victory over the Austrians.

But no comparable outpouring of progun commentary can be heard in the wake of incidents such as the Carpenter family massacre.

And hence the soul of Christ, which is more closely united to God than all other rational creatures, receives the greatest outpouring of His grace.

The great outpourings, the bomblike flash and dazzle, the dance of the lightnings like a crown .

Now Nialli Apuilana shows the Queen the armies of the People advancing from east and west and south: not merely the force that Thu-Kimnibol had brought with him from Dawinno, but the warriors of all the Seven Cities of the continent, from Yissou and Thisthissima and Gharb, from Ghajnsielem, from Cignoi, from Bornigrayal, every tribe of every land, all of them united here in one cataclysmic outpouring of joined strength.

Finally she was up, squatting in the leaves, her lower lip between her teeth, relieving herself with groans and gasps, her holes feeling scalded by the outpourings, and much of what she left on the ground was blood.

In a minute listen, made headlines recently when a small dog named Spot, trapped in its interstices, was killed when the towering structure was struck by lightning, provoking a nationwide outpouring of grief.