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Wellspring  n.  A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply. "Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it; but the instruction of fools is folly."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wellspring" Quotes from Famous Books



... view, more astonished than anything else at this sudden rise of passion in the drummer. She could hardly believe her senses—so good-natured and tractable had he invariably been. It was not for her to see the wellspring of human passion. A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairylands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser



Words linked to "Wellspring" :   beginning, well, origin, source, wellhead, root, fountainhead, rootage



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