inwellings

Noun

inwelling (plural inwellings)

1. The process of flowing inward and pooling.
   • The last stages of deformation were accompanied by, or followed by, the inwelling or injection of magmas along the Keweenaw thrust plane.1929, Wisconsin Geological, Natural History Survey, Bulletin, page 116
2. A growing feeling or internal sensation that causes one to feel emotionally full.
   • Like the prodigal son, "when he came to himself" when her long slumbering conscience awoke , and she felt the soft, gentle inwelling of a now thoroughly aroused soul, which made her realize a great-hearted, universal charity for erring humanity, there rose also a great pity in her heart for the...1890, Emma E. H. Specht, Alfrieda: A Novel, page 196

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