proruptions

Noun

proruption (plural proruptions)

1. The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.
   • Others ground this disruption upon their continued or protracted time of delivery, presumed to last twenty days; whereat, excluding but one a day, the latter brood, impatient, by a forcible proruption anticipate their period of exclusion;1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
2. A protrusion extending from the main body of a country or state.
   • The most important area of revenue production, on the other hand, is Shaba Province (formerly Ka-tanga), itself a proruption in the far southeast.1989, Martin Ira Glassner, Harm J. de Blij, Systematic Political Geography, page 74
3. A transformation into a more politically articulated or differentiated form of government.
   • The democratic proruption of a society underlines simply the fact that all the members of a particular society are now partners and participants in the act of governance.2005, Ramashray Roy, Democracy in India: Form and Substance, page 17