Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of entering, as into union or incorporation with something; a passing into or within.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Act of entering; entrance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act or process of entering or intruding
  • noun metaphysics The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality
  • noun biology The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation

Etymologies

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ingress +‎ -ion

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Examples

  • Now our first impression is that at last we have come to the simple plain fact of where the object really is; and that the vaguer relation which I call ingression should not be muddled up with the relation of situation, as if including it as a particular case.

    The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904

  • You may have noticed that I am using the term 'ingression' to denote the general relation of objects to events.

    The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904

  • It paints woman as passive participant in the sexual act, where that participation amounts only to accepting the invasive ingression upon her core.

    V Is For Vulva (That’s Good Enough For Me) | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • It paints woman as passive participant in the sexual act, where that participation amounts only to accepting the invasive ingression upon her core.

    V Is For Vulva (That's Good Enough For Me) 2007

  • It paints woman as passive participant in the sexual act, where that participation amounts only to accepting the invasive ingression upon her core.

    Archive 2007-10-21 2007

  • “But about the alleged ingression, I insist: calibrations of the dates of divergence of genes is no small issue…”

    Randy Neanderthals? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Some may find it scandalous that theological ideas should be taken seriously in a book on philosophy; I find it no more scandalous than the ingression into philosophy of scientific ideas from

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • It was no annihilation, no temporary absorption into the Universal Consciousness, no ingression into the Divine Shadow, that the child experienced.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • 'Yes, but supposing: a complete transmogrification -- by some unimaginable ingression or enchantment, by nibbling a bunch of roses, or whatever you like to call it?'

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

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