prosiliency

English

Etymology

Latin prosilere (“to leap forth”).

Noun

prosiliency (uncountable)

1. (rare) The act of leaping forth or forward; projection.
   • 1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Irving's Ben-Ezra:

     such prosiliency of relief

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prosiliency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)