Definition of "upsprung" [upsprung]

• Simple past tense and past participle of upspring. (verb)

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• "They swam into her recognition like wraiths upsprung, as it were, from the sand itself or exhaled upon"
• "Wistfulness upsprung as I reviewed my empty life, but rude reality suddenly uprose and obliterated ideality."
• "But probably they each had had their chance of love, and the old bitterness upsprung that mine had not fallen athwart my pathway."