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upstarting

vb. (present participle of upstart English)

Usage examples of "upstarting".

You provide an accomplished fact, and I—too weak to protest dishonor—make my bow meekly and am ruled by the whim of an upstarting boy.

And upstarting wild and haggard, Like a man from dreams awakened, He was healed of all his madness.