Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Violent and destructive eruptiveness.
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Examples
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'To repress and hold-in such sudden anger he was continually' careful, 'and succeeded well: -- right, Samson; that it may become in thee as noble central heat, fruitful, strong, beneficent; not blaze out, or the seldomest possible blaze out, as wasteful volcanoism to scorch and consume!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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"To repress and hold-in such sudden anger he was continually careful," and succeeded well: -- right, Samson; that it may become in thee as noble central heat, fruitful, strong, beneficent; not blaze out, or the seldomest possible blaze out, as wasteful volcanoism to scorch and consume!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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