egression

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin egressio.

Noun

egression (plural egressions)

  1. The act of going; egress.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
    • (Can we date this quote by Jeremy Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for egression”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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