effloresce
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Two decades later the image would effloresce in the story/novella “Cousins”:
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2015
But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This wide, general commandment of our text is sufficiently definite, thinks Paul; for if the light be in you it will naturally effloresce into all forms of beauty.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander
He does not tell us in this parable how the character which will effloresce in blossoms and set in fruits of goodness is produced.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander
But the broad principles will effloresce into all manner of perfectnesses and all fruits.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander
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