Efflorescing

Word EFFLORESCING
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Definitions and meanings of "Efflorescing"

What do we mean by efflorescing?

(obsolete except figurative) To burst into bloom; to flower.

Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.

Senses relating to chemistry.

Efflorescence is the formation of crusty, white salt deposits, leached from mortar or masonry as water passes through it. Urban Dictionary

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The word "efflorescing" in example sentences

This had the double disadvantage of rendering the specimen cured by its aid almost dripping with humidity in damp weather, and efflorescing with the double salts around the eyes and mouth in dry weather. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

These may subsequently be covered with drifting sands and capillary action may cause the borates to work up through the sands, becoming mixed with them and efflorescing at the surface. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Is not, after all, Love the one supreme and significant fact of the cosmos: indelible, indecipherable: efflorescing in Man; emerging from the material; idealizing the carnal; pointing to an inscrutable, a spiritual goal? ❋ Unknown (1899)

Pietro has a painful air of never efflorescing into a maximum. ❋ Henry James (1879)

Son of God -- That Christ is the Son of God in His divine and eternal nature is clear from all the New Testament; yet here we see that Sonship efflorescing into human and palpable manifestation by His being born, through "the power of the Highest," an Infant of days. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Lord, 'will manifest itself by efflorescing into all holiness and all loftiness and largeness of obedience. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

The efflorescing matter is composed of carbonate of soda, chloride of sodium, and biborate of soda. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

Before leaving the valley, he observed a hillock glistening white: it appears from its salt, bitter taste, to have been some kind of nitrate efflorescing from the ground. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

Continuing along the foot of the hills, in the afternoon we found five or six hot-springs gushing out together, beneath a conglomerate, consisting principally of fragments of a grayish-blue limestone, efflorescing a salt upon the surface. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

Cities, especially Cities in Revolution, are subject to these alternations; the secret courses of civic business and existence effervescing and efflorescing, in this manner, as a concrete Phenomenon to the eye. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Perhaps he was going to extol the efflorescing nonviolent mobilization in the West Bank? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The beds of the rivulets, and often a considerable way up the hills, showed immense bodies of schistus, both bine and any, some of it efflorescing, and tasting strongly of alum. ❋ Unknown (1789)

The Mission entrusted to the community of the North American believers in the darkest days of the last war, is, after a period of incubation of well nigh twenty years, and through the instrumentality of the administrative agencies erected after ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s passing, efflorescing under our very eyes. ❋ 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi (1927)

Saatz and Commothau in Bohemia), or efflorescing in cavities (as at ❋ Unknown (1851)

Bohemia), or efflorescing in cavities (as at Freienwalde in ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

May-time before the bracken was long and the blossomy blackthorn trees confettied every hillside, we ... marvelled at the water efflorescing across dark strata before ... seeking out a bed in the heather from which to watch the stars come out and the moon sail from behind the bounding, low hedges. " ❋ Unknown (2010)

The [efflorescence] was a [clear] sign that my [foundation] had water. ❋ Paul Thornton (2007)

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