Definition of "onrushing" []

• Rushing or flowing forward (adjective)
• Attacking (adjective)

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• "The onrushing process of globalization—loosely defined as worldwide networks of interdependence—served as a major propellant of integration."
• "The onrushing prose and stabbing emotional intensity that are Oates 'greatest strengths imbue the volume with compulsive readability."
• "Today the waters themselves, the mightiest of streams, the great onrushing rivers and oceans that Prophet Martin and Prophet Amos thought the very standards of mighty justice, of empowered justice, of Eternal justice -- these mighty waters are themselvesbeing poisoned, polluted, raped, reduced to mere victims of unjust power."