onrushes

Noun

onrush (plural onrushes)

1. A forceful rush or flow forward.
   • The love within us and the love without
     Are mixed, confounded; if we are loved or love,
     We scarce distinguish. So, with other power.
     Being acted on and acting seem the same:
     In that first onrush of life’s chariot-wheels,
     We know not if the forests move or we.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C.S. Francis & Co., published 1857, First Book, pp. 32-33
2. An aggressive assault.
   • He caught Grendel's right hand, and still without rising from his bed, stopped the monster's onrush.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 29

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