overflowings

Noun

overflowing (plural overflowings)

1. overflow
   • [T]hough he had, as it were, from the overflowings of his heart, given Sophia as a toast among the officers, where he thought it was impossible she should be known; yet, even there, the reader may remember how difficultly he was prevailed upon to mention her surname.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling