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▪ I. blossoming, vbl. n.|ˈblɒsəmɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The putting forth of blossoms, coming into flower; blooming, flowering.
c1440Promp. Parv. 41 Blosmynge, or blossummynge, frondositas. a1821Keats To Moon 34 In the summer tide of blossoming. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. 327 Colour is..especially connected with the blossoming of the earth.
fig.1602W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Paral. 18, I desire greatly to knowe the originall and first blossoming of other seignories.
attrib.1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. iv. 41 Blossoming Time That from the seednes the bare fallow brings To teeming foyson.
▪ II. ˈblossoming, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That blossoms or puts forth flowers; flowering, blooming; also fig.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i viii, When euery bushe is freshe and blosomynge. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 8 Bushes with bloosming Buds. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. xii. 23 [They] melt their sweets On blossoming Cæsar. 1828Scott F.M. Perth III. 109 Confidence in the blossoming virtues of his successor. |