Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of emerging; egress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of going out, especially from an inclosed or confined place; departure; outward passage; egress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of going; egress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
going ;egress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
Etymologies
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Examples
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Before his egression, Barrow heard a few words spoken into the telephone.
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This is precisely what happened in the South, and this is why the Cotton States seceded before Lincoln was even inaugurated and before his administration had committed, or had a chance to commit, any act of egression against them.
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This is precisely what happened in the South, and this is why the Cotton States seceded before Lincoln was even inaugurated and before his administration had committed, or had a chance to commit, any act of egression against them.
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Simna was listening more closely now, drawn not only to the proprietor's story but to the growing feeling that it just might have something to do with the hysterical egression of their last two listeners.
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Simna was listening more closely now, drawn not only to the proprietor's story but to the growing feeling that it just might have something to do with the hysterical egression of their last two listeners.
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The universe spreads as broad as the presence of soul; the bound of its expansion is the point at which, in its downward egression from the Supreme, it still has soul to bind it in one: it is a shadow as broad as the Reason-Principle proceeding from soul; and that
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There was certainly some difficulty in our egression.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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Sufficient alacrity of egression not having been shown, the Keepers closed the two gates, and at the same time locked the east and western avenues; thus interdicting from egress above three hundred contumacious individuals, including the Hon.
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What _endless egression of phrases_ the dog commands!
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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_Of their egression endlessly, with ever rising new_
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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