Meaning of Ebullience | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A boiling or bubbling up; an ebullition.
   uncountable, usually
2. The quality of enthusiastic or lively expression of feelings and thoughts.
   figuratively, uncountable, usually

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Examples

“In conversation, doubtless, you may observe him [Samuel Johnson], on occasion, fighting as if for victory;—and must pardon these ebulliences of a careless hour, which were not without temptation and provocation.”

“Now an irresistible agent like this [heat] is everywhere at work in the ranges of creaturehood. It lights the stars as its jets. It bulbs the sun body with its ebullience. None the less, it tints the delicate grass blades and flower petals.”

“The early days of the epidemic had been a time of ebullition or ebullience, pathologically speaking, full of movements and tics, impulsions and impetuosities, manias and crises, ardencies and appetencies.”

“In the end, however, rebellion must exhaust itself. We grow weary of our paltry carnal transports, our ebulliences of defiance, our abortive expeditions to the frontiers of the respectable world.”

“Sophia did not ſee his Behaviour in ſo very diſadvantageous a Light, and was perhaps more pleaſed with the violent Raptures of his Love [...] than ſhe was offended with the reſt; and indeed ſhe imputed the whole to the Extravagance, or rather Ebullience, of his Paſſion, and to the Openneſs of his Heart.”

“[H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own good play, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire.”

“The first ebullience of parental joy at his return, together with the congratulations of his affectionate brethren, having gradually subsided, few days were indeed allowed for idle recreation; and the same industrious course was persevered in.”

“O! how shall I describe that exquisite ebullience and overflow of youthful life, wafted on over the laughing waves of pleasure and prosperity, as a wanton beauty that distorts the face on which she knows her lover is gazing enraptured, and wrinkles her forehead in the triumph of its smoothness!”

“About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?”

“But if jazz was in one sense a music of rejoicing, of liberated ebuillence, it was at the same time, even in New Orleans, still a music of protest: [...]”

“The actual lives led by most African Americans were much different from the grinning masks and the ebullience displayed on stage.”

“When I first met him in the wee hours of the morning of this very day, I sensed he possessed an ebullience and intelligence that I had not encountered for the longest time.”

“Although it is invariably urban in its setting, Carnival is bigger than any one city or religion. Its ebullience and dynamism is a natural florescence of dense communities.”

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