proruption

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

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...
    • But the proruption of a fame that shall blaze, not flicker, is at hand. - 1860 November 10, The Musical World, volume 38, page 717:
    • Continued nervous disturbances in recent secondary syphilis are described by Finger, who in fifty cases found an increase, sometimes a very marked one, in the reflex-excitability of the skin and tendons just before and...
  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. - 1989, Martin Ira Glassner, Harm J. de Blij, Systematic Political...
    • Proruptions were often drawn by colonizers to ensure their access to raw materials or water transport. - 2017, Kelly Swanson, AP Human Geography 2017-2018:
    • Elsewhere, Afghanistan similarly has a proruption, which was created by the British to prevent Russia from sharing a border with Pakistan, which caused conflicts. - 2023, Narayan Changder, Political Geography, page 290:
  3. Transformation into a more politically articulated or differentiated form of government.
    • The democratic proruption of a society underlines simply the fact that all the members of a particular society are now partners and participants in the act of governance. - 2005, Ramashray Roy, Democracy in India: Form...
    • In his discussion of the proruption of a political people, he employs the symbol of mystical body for the realm. - 2012, James Greenaway, The Differentiation of Authority, page 115:
    • To have created the concepts of eruption and proruption is no mean theoretical achievement in itself, because it allows us to distinguish the component in representation that is almost forgotten wherever the legal...

Origin

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

Forms

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