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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ih-buhl-yuh ns, ih-boo l- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈbʌl yəns, ɪˈbʊl- |
Definition of ebullience
Origin :- 1749, from Latin ebullientem, present participle of ebullire (see ebullient + -ence). Related: Ebulliency (1670s).
- noun enthusiasm
- It is this ebullience of youthful energy, this inexhaustible vitality, which is the admiration and despair of his contemporaries.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- The spring was stirring everywhere, and Robert raced along, feeling in every vein a life, an ebullience akin to that of nature.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- For Southeys well known rejoinder to this ebullience of schematism, see Life and Correspondence, ii.
- Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- It is full of remarkable qualities: wit, humour, an ebullience of animal spirits that is Rabelaisian.
- Extract from : « Old Familiar Faces » by Theodore Watts-Dunton
- This was a bit of his clowning humor, a purely manufactured and as it were mechanical joke or ebullience of soul.
- Extract from : « Twelve Men » by Theodore Dreiser
- Until a few years ago the State confined its ebullience in matters educational to the Board Schools.
- Extract from : « The Lighter Side of School Life » by Ian Hay
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