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proruption

noun

  1. The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.

    Others ground this disruption upon their continued or protracted time of delivery, presumed to last twenty days; whereat, excluding but one a day, the latter brood, impatient, by a forcible proruption anticipate their period of exclusion;

  2. A protrusion extending from the main body of a country or state.

    The most important area of revenue production, on the other hand, is Shaba Province (formerly Ka-tanga), itself a proruption in the far southeast.

Where it comes from

From Latin proruptio, from prorumpere, proruptum (“to break forth”), from pro (“forth”) + rumpere (“to break”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry proruption (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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