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ˈheadspring
1. The fountain-head or main source of a stream.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. xii. (1544) 23 a, From one hed⁓spring There ran out riuers and stremes of al cunning. 1586Holinshed Chron. (1808) VI. iv. 40 The riuer of the Banne flowed from this head spring. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. lxii, The great winding of the River..and the low-lying of the Head-springs of it. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. iii. 54 The land was not less fertile to the very head-springs of the river.
2. fig. The chief source of anything; the quarter whence anything originates.
c1450in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 47 Hede-spryng and welle of perfite continence! 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 630 As the Sunne is the headspring of the light and the heat: so is the Father the headspring of the Son. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 30 Faith being..the Head-Spring of all that is good in us. 1859Mill Liberty ii. 46 The two headsprings of ethical as of all other philosophy. |