egression

[ ih-gresh-uhn ]

noun

1. a going out; egress.

Word History and Origins

Origin of egression¹

1500–10; < Latin ēgressiōn- (stem of ēgressiō ) a going out, equivalent to ēgress ( us ), past participle of ēgredī ( egress ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

But here, each form, after having been warned by the conductor that its time was up, sunk down right through the carpet as though it were the most ordinary mode of egression.

From Project Gutenberg

The archetypal world was made by the egression of one out of one, and by the regression of that one, so emitted into itself by emanation.

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In one of his early letters to Coleridge where he mentions having just finished reading Chapman's Homer, Lamb, seizing upon a phrase in that translation, says with gusto, "what endless egression of phrases the dog commands."

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There was certainly some difficulty in our egression.

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Being abroad, the earth was overlaid With flockers to them, that came forth; as when of frequent bees Swarms rise out of a hollow rock, repairing the degrees Of their egression endlessly, with ever rising new From forth their sweet nest; as their store, still as it faded, grew, And never would cease sending forth her clusters to the spring, They still crowd out so: this flock here, that there, belabouring The loaded flowers.

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