Upblowing
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An act or instance of blowing up countable, uncountable
- 1 present participle and gerund of upblow form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Blowing in an upward direction
"[…] the ever-changing panorama of the seasons, with the green spring, yellow summer, and the purple autumn, always rejoicing in the vales; and the white winter always, if not only, frosting the loftiest summits above them, cooling the down-flowing waters, and the upblowing winds, and imaging to the pure below the still greater purity of the regions to which they point: […]"
Example
More examples"[…] the ever-changing panorama of the seasons, with the green spring, yellow summer, and the purple autumn, always rejoicing in the vales; and the white winter always, if not only, frosting the loftiest summits above them, cooling the down-flowing waters, and the upblowing winds, and imaging to the pure below the still greater purity of the regions to which they point: […]"
Etymology
From upblow + -ing.
From upblow + -ing or up- + blowing.
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