lifespring

English

Alternative forms

life-spring

Etymology

From life +‎ spring.

Noun

lifespring (plural lifesprings)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• pilferings