lifespring
nounEtymology From life + spring.
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A spring or source of life.
- Consumption! 't is thou that their life-springs hast wasted! 'T is thou that hast wither'd the bud in its bloom!c. 1822, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Lines On the Death of Two Children:
- Perchance, when ages shall have fled, that land, Stripped bare-- again unable to withstand Volcanic force, that will her life-springs start1902, Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Queen Moo's Talisman; the Fall of the Maya Empire, Chapter I: