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eb⋅ul⋅li⋅tion

  [eb-uh-lish-uhn]
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–noun
1. a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
2. the state of being ebullient.
3. the act or process of boiling up.
4. a rushing forth of water, lava, etc., in a state of agitation.
Origin:
1525–35; < L ēbullītiōn- (s. of ēbullītiō), equiv. to ēbullīt(us) (ptp. of ēbullīre to boil up ēbullī- (see ebullient ) + -tus ptp. suffix) + -iōn- -ion
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eb·ul·li·tion   (ěb'ə-lĭsh'ən)   
n.  
  1. The state or process of boiling.
  2. A sudden, violent outpouring, as of emotion: "did not . . . give way to any ebullitions of private grief" (Thackeray).

[Middle English ebullitioun, from Late Latin ēbullītiō, ēbullītiōn-, from Latin ēbullītus, past participle of ēbullīre, to bubble up; see ebullient.]
eb'ul·li'tion·al adj.
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Ebullition

Eb`ul*li"tion\, n. [F. ['e]bullition, L. ebullitio, fr. ebullire. See Ebullient.]

1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

2. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an a["e]riform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]

3. A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
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