blossoming

English

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Verb

blossoming

1. present participle and gerund of blossom

Noun

blossoming (plural blossomings)

1. The act or process by which something blossoms.
   • 2009 March 8, Pico Iyer, “Crimes of Innocence”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2017:

     “The Vagrants” begins on March 21, 1979 — the spring equinox — which is this careful writer’s way of telling us that a long winter of privation and darkness may be giving way, at last, to the blossomings of spring.