paroxysmic
- a variation of paroxysmal.
- a word derived from paroxysm.
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In a sequence on spring, time-stop and photomicrography have been used to develop the writhing upward and explosive unfurling and blooming of plants, a boiling of sap, a paroxysmic pulsing and dancing of all creation.
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