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wellspring

[ wel-spring ]

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noun

the head or source of a spring, stream, river, etc.; fountainhead.
a source or supply of anything, especially when considered inexhaustible:
a wellspring of affection.

wellspring

/ ˈwɛlˌsprɪŋ /

First recorded before 900; Middle English welle spring, Old English wyllspring(e); well ², spring

Old English welspryng, wylspring; see well ², spring

Nor should our recognition of Edward Snowden occasion our rejection of peace and joy as a wellspring of our lives.

Mexico, Mexico City in particular, has been a wellspring for the global art world for a while.

Jeffress was of course tapping into a wellspring of anti-Mormon prejudice in the culture.

Holy men have a wellspring of pity in their hearts, to which ordinary men are total strangers.

She could dam up the wellspring of her impulses, walk steadfast along the accustomed ways.

The famous Minerva press was the first mighty wellspring whence gushed the broad and rapid torrent of cheap fiction.

The Sclav race is a rich poetic wellspring, but it depends upon what one means by poetry.

Like a Strong Silent Man he held in that wellspring of champagne and mercury until many many years later.

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