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Emerge   /ɪmˈərdʒ/  /ˈimərdʒ/   Listen
Emerge

verb
(past & past part. emerged; pres. part. emerging)
1.
Come out into view, as from concealment.
2.
Come out of.  Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, go forth, issue.  "The words seemed to come out by themselves"
3.
Become known or apparent.
4.
Come up to the surface of or rise.
5.
Happen or occur as a result of something.  Synonym: come forth.



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"Emerge" Quotes from Famous Books



... reached this patch of light they were suddenly illumined by a sharp white glow which revealed, with singular distinctness, every outline of visage or costume. And as the various contingents swept on, the young people thus saw them emerge, fiercely and without ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... upon the meanness of the shifts I had reduced myself to, I could not but curse the folly and extravagance that had overwhelmed me in a sea of troubles, from which it was highly improbable that I should ever emerge. I had some time lived in hopes of an estate, at the death of my uncle; but he disappointed me by marrying his housekeeper; and, catching an opportunity soon after of quarrelling with me, for settling twenty pounds a year upon a girl whom I had seduced, told me ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

... of the Encyclopaedia of Diderot and D'Alembert, it is unnecessary to prolong this list. It was Francis Bacon's idea of the systematic classification of knowledge which inspired Diderot, and guided his hand throughout. "If we emerge from this vast operation," he wrote in the Prospectus, "our principal debt will be to the chancellor Bacon, who sketched the plan of a universal dictionary of sciences and arts at a time when there were not, so to say, either arts or sciences." This sense of profound and devoted ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley

... thickets, tearing over rough ground, steering between trees, ducking your head under boughs, and twitching up first one leg and then the other to save them from being smashed against black-boys or banksias. You clear the wood, and emerge again upon a plain; the kangaroos are bounding along, some three hundred yards in advance, the dogs lying well up to them; and now the latter have fixed upon one of the herd, whom they pursue with resolute ...
— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor

... tributes to Dame Hansen's merits as an inn-keeper. The names are principally those of Swedes and Norwegians from every part of Scandinavia; but the English make a very respectable showing; and one of them, who had waited at least an hour for the summit of Gousta to emerge from the morning mist that enveloped it, wrote upon ...
— Ticket No. "9672" • Jules Verne


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