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outwelling

outwelling is the present participle and gerund of outwell.

Meaning of outwell

Verb

outwell (third-person singular simple present outwells, present participle outwelling, simple past and past participle outwelled)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To well outward; to issue forth.
    • […] when old father Nilus gins to swell
      With timely pride aboue the Aegyptian vale,
      His fattie waues doe fertile slime outwell,
      And ouerflow each plaine and lowly dale:1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 9

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Noun

outwelling (plural outwellings)

  1. A welling outward; an issuing forth.
    • We can see in the dozen years between 1517 and the Protestation of the second diet in Speier in 1529 the mighty outwellings of a religious movement comparable only to the unleashings of the dogs of war and the releasing of religious, humanitarian, national and international idealisms, fanaticisms...1929 January, John W. Johnson, “Balthasar Huebmaier and Baptist Historic Commitments”, in Shirley Jackson Case, editor, The Journal of Religion, volume IX, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: The University of...
    • Outwellings and inwellings will meet at the boundary layers.1984, W. O'Reilly, Magnetism, Planetary Rotation, and Convection in the Solar System, page 368

Forms of outwelling

pluraloutwellings

Questions about outwelling

What does outwelling mean?
Outwelling means a welling outward; an issuing forth.
What is outwelling the present participle and gerund of?
Outwelling is the present participle and gerund of outwell.
What part of speech is outwelling?
Outwelling is a noun.
What is the plural of outwelling?
The plural of outwelling is outwellings.

Words near outwelling in the dictionary

  1. outweirded
  2. outweirding
  3. outweirds
  4. outwell
  5. outwelled
  6. outwelling
  7. outwellings
  8. outwells
  9. outwent
  10. outwentst
  11. outwept

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