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onsweep
onsweep v. 
/ˌɑnˈswip/ transitive. poetic to sweep on.
Brit. /ˌɒnˈswiːp/
, /ˌɒnˈswiːp/U.S. /ˌɔnˈswip/
, /ˌɔnˈswip//ˌɑnˈswip/ΚΠ
a1875 J. W. Miles in P. Schaff & A. Gilman Libr. Relig. Poetry (1881) 35 That all his shattered aims, his hopes bewept, Are in God's counsels deep and fathomless onswept.
1939 G. Murray Persians 26 Lest Fate, as master, overturn, onsweeping with relentless stride, The splendours that Darius reared.
onsweep
onsweep n. /ˈɑnˌswip/ onward sweep.
Brit. /ˈɒnswiːp/
, /ˈɒnswiːp/U.S. /ˈɔnˌswip/
, /ˈɔnˌswip//ˈɑnˌswip/ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > continuous progress or advance of anything > rapid
onsweep1866
on-sweeping1885
onsurge1949
1866 Dublin Rev. Jan. 170 The rights of property alone..formed the basis of resistance to the onsweep of revolution.
1912 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 22 193 All the values that men cherish and lose, whether through their own natures or the brute onsweep of the flux.
1996 A. R. Ammons Whitewater in Brink Road 22 The guy ahead..has an advance on knowing but endures longer the windup of the onsweep.
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