[f. prec. + -Y.]

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  1.  The quality of being ebullient: readiness to boil or bubble forth or overflow. lit. and fig.

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1676.  R. Dixon, Nat. Two Testaments, 228. Mistaking … the ebulliency of their Fancies and Expressions for a supernatural Inspiration.

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1817.  Coleridge, Biog. Lit., I. 140. The simple, whom … an original ebulliency of spirit, had urged to the investigation of the … ground of all things.

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1885.  Athenæum, 19 Sept., 379/3. Neville acts with his customary ebulliency and manliness as the hero.

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  2.  pl. = EBULLITION 4.

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1667.  H. More, Div. Dial., i. § 12 (1713), 24. In the … ferments and ebulliencies of the Spirits of Men in this Age.

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