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  1. noun The act of coming or going out; emergence.
  2. noun The right to leave or go out: denied the refugees egress.
  3. noun A path or opening for going out; an exit.

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  • After bombing, speed was to be converted back into altitude for the egress, the aircraft closing to very tight formation if fighters were in the vicinity. —  Luftwaffe Victorious
  • Shut up in a place from which there has been thought to be but one way of egress, and that the passage to the grave, they considered themselves safe in perpetrating crimes in our presence, and in making us share in their criminality as often as they chose, and conducted more shamelessly than even the brutes. —  Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
  • After that, the egress was always ready on holidays. —  Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
  • Participants and spectators alike were delighted with the ease of ingress and egress, the comfortable division of space, the perfection of its acoustic qualities. —  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2
  • A hinged door allowed entrance and egress, and a brass horn, attached to a tube that ran back up the cable, permitted the Gegs to communicate with those above. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin ēgressus, from past participle of ēgredī, to go out : ē-, ex-, ex- + gradī, to go; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Portuguese Italian egresso, from Latin egressus, a going out, from egressus, past participle of egredi, go out, from e, out, + gradi, go: see grade. Cf. ingress, progress, regress.
  2. from Latin egressus, past participle of egredi, go out: see egress, n. Cf. aggress, progress.
 

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