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on-sweeping
on-sweeping adj. 
/ˌɑnˈswipɪŋ/
Brit. /ˌɒnˈswiːpɪŋ/
, /ˌɒnˈswiːpɪŋ/U.S. /ˌɔnˈswipɪŋ/
, /ˌɔnˈswipɪŋ//ˌɑnˈswipɪŋ/ΚΠ
1839 E. S. Wortley Visionary iii. 244 Crag and block, forced by the onsweeping waves, far round are whirled.
1896 Chicago Advance 16 Apr. 553/1 The onsweeping purposes..of God.
1923 E. Conybeare Highways & Byways Cambr. & Ely xi. 259 They held out with never-failing devotion against the on-sweeping torrent of Mahommedan aggression.
1996 Washington Monthly 28 42 Stanford..became merged with the onsweeping imperial mood of the Gilded Age.
on-sweeping
on-sweeping n. and adj. As noun/ˈɑnˌswipɪŋ/, As adjective/ˌɑnˈswipɪŋ/ rare
Brit. /ˈɒnˌswiːpɪŋ/
, /ˈɒnˌswiːpɪŋ/U.S. /ˈɔnˌswipɪŋ/
, /ˈɔnˌswipɪŋ//ˈɑnˌswipɪŋ/Brit. /ˌɒnˈswiːpɪŋ/
, /ˌɒnˈswiːpɪŋ/U.S. /ˌɔnˈswipɪŋ/
, /ˌɔnˈswipɪŋ//ˌɑnˈswipɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > continuous progress or advance of anything > rapid
onsweep1866
on-sweeping1885
onsurge1949
1885 Homilet. Rev. 134 In the tremendous onsweepings of society.
a1936 R. E. Howard Black Stranger & Other Amer. Tales (2005) 10 Count Valenso watched the on-sweeping sail as it rounded the point of the southern horn.
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- on the piss
- on the place
- on the plain
- on the plane
- on the plus side
- on the plush
- on the pogey
- on the point of
- on the point to
- on the pop of
- on the pounce
- on the present
- on the prod
- on the prowl
- on the pull
- on the pulse
- on the qt
- on the quack
- on the quarter
- on the queer
- on the qui vive
- on the quick-foot
- on the quickfoot
- on the quiet
- on the rack