emergence

UK /ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/ US /ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒ(ə)ns/
noun 4

Definitions

noun

1

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.

Some birds do indeed sing through the night of all we can remember, temperature gaugings at the site of our earliest emergence revealing that all was cool then

2

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.

3

An emergency.

In this dire emergence, the Marquis de Torcy, minister for foreign affairs, offered his services.

I[…]had recourse to an English Merchant, Mr Gregory, long settled at Dunkirk, to whom, happily, I had been recommended, as to a person capable, in any emergence, to afford me assistance.

4

An outgrowth from the surface, such as a prickle or wart, differing from hairs in arising from more than the superficial cells, and from spines in arising from a few layers only.

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