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proruption en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin proruptio, from prorumpere, proruptum (“to break forth”), from pro (“forth”) + rumpere (“to break”).

Meanings

1. The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.
   • Others ground this disruption upon their continued or protracted time of delivery, presumed to last twenty days; whereat, excluding but one a day, the latter brood, impatient, by a forcible proruption anticipate their period of exclusion; 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
   • But the proruption of a fame that shall blaze, not flicker, is at hand. 1860 November 10, The Musical World, volume 38, page 717:
   • It begins with a proruption in many cases in the form of a roseola of large spots or a sparse maculopapular eruption on the trunk and extremities, never on the face. This proruption consists of localized outbreaks. 1917, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, page 383:
   • Continued nervous disturbances in recent secondary syphilis are described by Finger, who in fifty cases found an increase, sometimes a very marked one, in the reflex-excitability of the skin and tendons just before and at the time of the proruption of the exanthema, which was soon followed by a decrease in reflex-excitability, often decreasing to far below normal — in some cases even as far as "o." 1911 November, Oscar Beck, “Vertigo and Disturbances of the Equilibrium in Recent Secondary Syphilis”, in The Laryngoscope, volume 21, number 11, page 1059:
2. A protrusion extending from the main body of a country or state.
   • Proruptions were often drawn by colonizers to ensure their access to raw materials or water transport. 2017, Kelly Swanson, AP Human Geography 2017-2018:
   • Elsewhere, Afghanistan similarly has a proruption, which was created by the British to prevent Russia from sharing a border with Pakistan, which caused conflicts. 2023, Narayan Changder, Political Geography, page 290:
   • The most important area of revenue production, on the other hand, is Shaba Province (formerly Ka-tanga), itself a proruption in the far southeast. 1989, Martin Ira Glassner, Harm J. de Blij, Systematic Political Geography, page 74:
3. A transformation into a more politically articulated or differentiated form of government.
   • The democratic proruption of a society underlines simply the fact that all the members of a particular society are now partners and participants in the act of governance. 2005, Ramashray Roy, Democracy in India: Form and Substance, page 17:
   • To have created the concepts of eruption and proruption is no mean theoretical achievement in itself, because it allows us to distinguish the component in representation that is almost forgotten wherever the legal symbolism of the following centuries came to predominate in the interpretation of plitical reality. 2012, Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, page xiii:
   • In his discussion of the proruption of a political people, he employs the symbol of mystical body for the realm. 2012, James Greenaway, The Differentiation of Authority, page 115:

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