demersion

Latin demersio.

• IPA^(key): /diˈmɜː(ɹ)ʒən/

demersion (usually uncountable, plural demersions)

1. The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
2. The state of being overwhelmed in, or as if in, water.
   • 1692, John Ray, “The First Question Concerning the World’s Dissolution, Whether there be Any Thing in Nature that may Probably Cause or Argue a Future Dissolution? Three Probable Means propounded and Discussed.”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 360:

     [T]his Sinking and Demerſion of Buildings into the Earth is a manifeſt Sign of their Antiquity, vvhich is ſo much the greater, by hovv much the deeper they are ſunk.

• “demersion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• demoniser, demonries, domineers, modernise, neodermis