Definition of Flourish

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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.

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Flourish Quotations

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

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 a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao Tzu

When schools flourish, all flourishes.
Martin Luther

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren G. Bennis

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
Thomas Friedman

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

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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