Definition of "bourgeoning" []

• Present participle of bourgeon. (verb)
• Sprouting or blossoming (noun)
• That bourgeons (adjective)

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• "While to some extent modernity has interestingly provided trajectories of religions to be symbolically more prevalent concomitant with other secular institutions, it also provides another trend to the opposite, namely the bourgeoning of subjective life religiosity."
• "Long the bane of the NYPD, a Bronx jury spoke last week, raising the bourgeoning Ticketgate police scandal to a new level."
• ""Those enormous aggregate numbers cannot meaningfully be discussed, however, until there is some rough agreement about the bourgeoning share of spending that will be devoted to health care in the coming years — much of it channeled through government insurance.""