inbursting

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English

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Etymology

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From in +‎ bursting.

Adjective

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inbursting (not comparable)

  1. Bursting in or inward.
    • 1876, Chales MacKnight, Our Western Border;, page 178:
      They heard with dismay the furious clamor and saw with horror the inbursting mob of cruel and yelling persecutors.

Noun

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inbursting (plural inburstings)

  1. A bursting in or inward.
    • 1873, Henry Southgate, Gone before, page 379:
      The resurrection morning is a true sunrising, the inbursting of a cloudless day on all the righteous dead.
    • 2019, Walter C. Kaiser, The Christian and the Old Testament, page 255:
      And now Daniel tells us how the kingdom of God will come suddenly. It will come as an 'inbursting'.
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