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Emergent   /ɪmˈərdʒənt/  /ˈimərdʒənt/   Listen
Emergent

adjective
1.
Occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action.
2.
Coming into existence.  Synonym: emerging.



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"Emergent" Quotes from Famous Books



... Over emergent roofs A sound of pattering hoofs And anxious bleatings tells the passing herd: Scared by the piteous droves, A shoal of skurrying doves, Veering, around the island ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various

... she presented a huge, hideous, pleasant face, a featureless desert in a remote quarter of which the disproportionately small eyes might have figured a pair of rash adventurers all but buried in the sand. They reduced themselves when she smiled to barely discernible points—a couple of mere tiny emergent heads—though the foreground of the scene, as if to make up for it, gaped with a vast benevolence. In a word Julia saw—and as if she had needed nothing more; saw Mr. Pitman's opportunity, saw her ...
— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... and, above all, it completely expresses that agedness in the midst of active life which binds the old and the new into harmony. We in England have our new streets, our new inn, our green shaven lawn, and our piece of ruin emergent from it—a mere specimen of the Middle Ages put on a bit of velvet carpet, to be shown; and which, but for its size, might as well be on a museum shelf at once, under cover;—but, on the Continent, the links are unbroken between ...
— Frondes Agrestes - Readings in 'Modern Painters' • John Ruskin



Words linked to "Emergent" :   emergent evolution, nascent, sudden, emergency, emerge, emergence



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