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exurgent

exurgent adjective: arising or emergent.

Adjective

exurgent (comparative more exurgent, superlative most exurgent)

  1. (obsolete) Arising or emergent.
    • Determining exurgent controuersies in a Synod.1619, John Favour, Antiquitie Triumphing
    • Once kindled at a pure, etherial flame / A torch was borne across our southern sky / By eager hands who sought the worthy fame / Which comes at length to noblest ministry. / Yet soon exurgent waves / From deep, Plutonian caves.1916, Benjamin C Moomaw, edited by Thornwell Jacobs, The Oglethorpe story, →OL, page 142

Forms of exurgent

comparativemore exurgent
superlativemost exurgent

Origin of exurgent

From Latin exurgens, exsurgens, present participle of exurgere, exsurgere (“to rise up”); ex (“out”) + surgere (“to rise”).

Questions about exurgent

What does exurgent mean?
Exurgent means arising or emergent.
What part of speech is exurgent?
Exurgent is an adjective.

Words near exurgent in the dictionary

  1. exurbans
  2. exurbia
  3. exurbian
  4. exurbias
  5. exurbs
  6. exurgent
  7. exuscitate
  8. exuscitated
  9. exuscitates
  10. exuscitating
  11. exuscitatio

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