a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 120 Schinynge is outspringinge and stremynge out of þe substaunce of liȝt.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 101^v Hit is perile to touche bodyes þat beþ infect wiþ venym, for by euaporacioun and outspringinge ofte swiche bodyes infectiþ and corumpiþ al þat is nyȝe þerto.

1843 J. H. Ingraham Fanny vii. 22 The..out-springing of the spirit of this lovely girl into poetical expression, cannot but surprise all who have glanced over her careless and stolen-time compositions.

1865 S. Phillips Christian Home 97 We see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit.

1918 T. Hardy 30 Jan. in F. E. Hardy Later Years T. Hardy (1930) xv. 184 Among those who accomplished late, the poetic spark must always have been latent; but its outspringing may have been frozen and delayed for half a lifetime.

2000 Re: Calvinism & Evangelism in alt.religion.apologetics (Usenet newsgroup) 2 July Since those who received him did not do so from any natural outspringing of their will, it must be an unnatural, or spiritual outspringing..from God.

1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. lxxxviii. f. 94, in Wks. Borne not to weare the Crowne he wrought for thus. But in the ryse of his out-springing lust, Now in the last of hope, had this soule fall.

1868 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life 127 There the horse would prance by, with his neck a high bow, And would toss up his nose over outspringing knees.

1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) B. 187 141 The growth-lamellæ become strongly concentric and bend in out-springing curves around a common centre.

1934 Hesperia 3 455 We find Egyptian features in preponderance: the idea of a base medallion surrounded by outspringing vegetable members; the palm branches, the petals of the true lotus, [etc.].