Sentence:  Ferdinand de Saussure, who died in 1913 at the age of 55, sowed the seeds of structuralist thought that first took root in linguistics, then <WSD>effloresced</WSD> throughout the 20th century in fields as seemingly distinct as literary criticism, architecture, social anthropology and psychoanalysis. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To come forth, to reach full glory or power.