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effusion
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effusion as in:  effusions of domestic joy

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  • Was it, as "Batty" pretends, a mere effusion of grief?†  (source)
  • The doctor asked me to cough, took my temperature and blood pressure, applied his stethoscope, and announced that I had pleurisy with effusion, pre-tubercular.†  (source)
  • Like the Parliament, he had acted thus far in a spirit of moderation, he said, and he was "anxious to prevent, if it had been possible, the effusion of the blood of my subjects, and the calamities which are inseparable from a state of war."†  (source)
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  • The Gate reaches its blooming, buzzing peak by eleven on Thursday night-a prime-time, weekend's-coming effusion of see-and-be-seen activity, fueled by overcooked roast beef on cardboard sub rolls, slices of barbecue chicken pizza, Cool Ranch Doritos, and up-half-the-night vats of fountain Coke.†  (source)
  • Like the rest of her ilk, Mrs. Moodie is prone to overwrought effusions, and to the concoction of convenient fairy tales; and for the purposes of truth, one might as well rely on the "eye-witness reports" of a goose.†  (source)
    effusions = enthusiastic expressions of feelings or thoughts  OR  things flowing or given off (often under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)
  • Instead, their light effused the sky with an eerie, gray-white glow.†  (source)
    effused = expressed feelings or thoughts enthusiastically  OR  squirted or gave off (typically under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)
  • I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.†  (source)
    effuse = to expression feelings or thoughts enthusiastically  OR  to squirt or give off (typically under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)
  • Cedric is so happy he spontaneously hugs her, effusing, "At least I'm not the only one.†  (source)
    effusing = expressing of feelings or thoughts enthusiastically  OR  squirting or giving off (typically under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)
  • "Amazing, huh Cedric?" effuses Kelly.†  (source)
    effuses = enthusiastic expressions of feelings or thoughts  OR  squirts or gives off (typically under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)
  • One Saturday Mrs. E.C.B. stalked into the office with an effusion Mr. Underwood said he refused to disgrace the Tribune with: it was a cow obituary in verse, beginning: 0 kine no longer mine With those big brown eyes of thine.... and containing grave breaches of Christian philosophy.†  (source)
  • It was not the meanness of his sentimental effusions before Ilya Petrovitch, nor the meanness of the latter's triumph over him that had caused this sudden revulsion in his heart.†  (source)
    effusions = enthusiastic expressions of feelings or thoughts  OR  things flowing or given off (often under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)
  • He sang, how, from the horse effused, the Greeks Left their capacious ambush, and the town Made desolate.†  (source)
    effused = expressed feelings or thoughts enthusiastically  OR  squirted or gave off (typically under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)
  • We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on, And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?†  (source)
    effuse = to expression feelings or thoughts enthusiastically  OR  to squirt or give off (typically under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)
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