exurgent

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

exurgent (comparative more exurgent, superlative most exurgent)

  1. (obsolete) Arising or emergent.
    • 1619, John Favour, Antiquitie Triumphing:
      Determining exurgent controuersies in a Synod.
    • 1916, Benjamin C Moomaw, edited by Thornwell Jacobs, The Oglethorpe story[1], →OL, page 142:
      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.
    • 1920, Robert Briffault, “Aristocracy”, in The English Review, volume 31, number 12, page 528:
      The world is moved by ideas. According as those ideas are living, are true, are in harmony with the striving and exurgent world-forces, or are in opposition to those forces, unadapted, wrong, untrue, does the world of man rise or sink, grow or decay.
    • 2021, "Poleball" (pseudonym), Kohlzine, volume 1, number 17, page 20:
      He lies, he lies, beginning to arise / Exurgent is his might...!

References

Latin

Verb

exurgent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of exurgō