lifespring

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Etymology

From life +‎ spring.

Noun

lifespring (plural lifesprings)

A spring or source of life.
- c. 1822, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Lines On the Death of Two Children:
  Consumption! 't is thou that their life-springs hast wasted!
  'T is thou that hast wither'd the bud in its bloom!
- 1902, Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Queen Moo's Talisman; the Fall of the Maya Empire, Chapter I:
  Perchance, when ages shall have fled, that land,
  Stripped bare-- again unable to withstand
  Volcanic force, that will her life-springs start

References

“lifespring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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