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单词 proruption
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proruptionn.

Brit. /prəʊˈrʌpʃn/, U.S. /proʊˈrəpʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin proruption-, proruptio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin proruption-, proruptio action of bursting forth (4th cent.) < classical Latin prōrupt- , past participial stem of prōrumpere prorump v. + -iō -ion suffix1.
rare before 19th cent.
The action or an act of bursting forth. In later use chiefly: (Geography) the protrusion of part of a country, etc., out from the main body of territory (cf. prorupted adj. 2); an instance of this; a region which protrudes in this way.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvi. 145 The latter brood impatient, by a forcible proruption anticipate their period of exclusion. View more context for this quotation
1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. iii. 241 The cause you know is from the manner of exhalation & proruption of the ayry and fiery parts, that have left it.
1832 Daily Evening Transcript (Boston, Mass.) 6 Aug. 2/2 Puns, pungently pointed and perpetrated promptly, are productive of a proruption of a pretty proportion of piquant pleasure.
1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1023/1 Proruptio, term for a bursting or breaking forth, as of the blood: proruption.
1892 F. Forchheimer Diseases Mouth in Children ii. 37 Proruption of a tooth is frequently accompanied or followed by aphthæ.
1948 C. L. White & G. T. Renner Human Geogr. xxxiii. 560/2 Lesser proruptions project outward to Santa Monica.
1960 Econ. Geogr. 36 205/1 Only where the railroads remained, providing fast and efficient transportation, would there be any considerable likelihood of skewing this pattern by proruption beyond a consistent outer ring.
1991 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 33 539 The Meiji Restoration marked Japan's proruption as a modern industrial nation-state.
1997 J. P. LeDonne Russ. Empire & World viii. 192 Korea, like Georgia and Afghanistan, was a ‘proruption’, a forward position from which power could be projected in several directions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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