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)
- (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
- “exurgent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Verb
exurgent
- third-person plural future active indicative of exurgō