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Definition of Flourish

Flourish To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. Decoration; ornament; beauty. Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. Related Definitions: About, Activity, Admiration, Adorn, Ambitious, Amplification, An, And, Anything, Artificial, As, Be, Beauty, Boast, Bold, Brag, Brandish, Brandishing, Bravado, By, Cal, Comfort, Composition, Condition, Copiousness, Decoration, Decorative, Desirable, Develop, Diction, Either, Eloquence, Embellish, Embellishment, Enlarge, Excite, Execute, Expand, Fanciful, Fanfare, Fantastic, Figure, Florid, Flourish, Flourishing, Flowery, Forming, Grace, Graceful, Graver, Grow, Growing, Happiness, Healthy, Honor, In, Increase, Indulge, Irregular, Is, Language, Lofty, Luxuriantly, Made, Make, Manner, Merely, Motion, Move, Music, Musical, Natural, Not, Of, Off, Or, Ornament, Ornamental, Ostentation, Ostentatious, Other, Parade, Part, Passage, Pen, Performed, Plant, Play, Prelude, Production, Prominent, Prosperity, Prosperous, Regular, Rhetoric, Rhetorical, Set, Show, Showy, Something, Specifically, State, Strain, Stroke, Sweeping, Swing, Sword, The, Thing, Thrive, To, Triumph, Use, Vaunt, Vaunting, Vigor, Wanton, Waving, Way, Wealth, Weapon, Whatever, Wit, With, Write

Flourish Quotations For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. Simon Wiesenthal Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. John F. Kennedy The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Joseph Addison If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. Lao Tzu When schools flourish, all flourishes. Martin Luther

Flourish Translations flourish in Dutch is fanfarekorps, fanfare flourish in Italian is fiorire flourish in Norwegian is fanfare, snirkel, trives, florere flourish in Spanish is florecer, abrirse

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