[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The putting forth of blossoms, coming into flower; blooming, flowering.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 41. Blosmynge, or blossummynge, frondositas.
a. 1821. Keats, To Moon, 34. In the summer tide of blossoming.
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. 327. Colour is … especially connected with the blossoming of the earth.
fig. 1602. Fulbecke, 1st Pt. Paral., 18. I desire greatly to knowe the originall and first blossoming of other seignories.
attrib. 1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., I. iv. 41. Blossoming Time That from the seednes the bare fallow brings To teeming foyson.
