Proruption
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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;"
- 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."
- 3 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."
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More examples"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;"
Etymology
From Latin proruptio, from prorumpere, proruptum (“to break forth”), from pro (“forth”) + rumpere (“to break”).
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