In their view, free inquiry was the fount of other rights.—Steven K. Green, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2024 As a favorite hangout for retired and mainly boomer and Gen X workers from the planemaker’s nearby Everett plant, the place is a fount for up close and personal accounts of a once-fabled culture’s decline from the people who’ve lived it.—Will Daniel, Fortune, 26 June 2024 His Administration, like those of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, was a fount of special favors for powerful industries and a trasher of regulations that cost corporations money; and its first and biggest achievement was an enormous tax-cut bill tilted in favor of the rich.—James Lardner, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024 The aim was to topple a brutal tyranny that was a fount of aggression and instability in the Middle East through a brief, low-cost intervention.—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for fount
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French funte, founte, from Latin font-, fons
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