Definition of Fountainheads

1. Noun. (plural of fountainhead) ¹

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Definition of Fountainheads

1. fountainhead [n] - See also: fountainhead

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fountainheads

fount of honor
fount of honour
fountain
fountain code
fountain codes
fountain decussation
fountain pen
fountain pens
fountain water
fountained
fountaineer
fountaineers
fountainhead
fountainheads (current term)
fountaining
fountainless
fountainlet
fountainlets
fountainlike
fountains
fountains of youth
fountainwater
fountful
founts
founts of honor
founts of honour
founttain
four

Literary usage of Fountainheads

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"He tells him he has gone to " the fountainheads," and tested the claims of the ... And can a man pretend that he draws from the "fountainheads," when he has ..."

2. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"... and a considerable part of the eleventh century, St Gall was one of the great fountainheads of light north of the Alps. Under ..."

3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to ...by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"The opinion of those men, therefore, who handed the Gospel down to us, having been investigated, from their very fountainheads, let us proceed also to the ..."

4. The Bookman (1906)
"... by the inscriptions which have been discovered in Gaul, Mr. Squire confines his attention to the great fountainheads of Celtic myth—Ireland and Britain. ..."

5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... practically all his juniors, felt the influence of the flood of criticism that welled, gently but irresistibly, from the fountainheads of the Causeries ..."

6. Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang (1905)
"... DD," the fragment of biography and autobiography, the description of the fountainheads from which the genius of the author flowed. In his early boyhood, ..."

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