emergent

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Latin ēmergēns, present participle of ēmergō. The medical sense is a back-formation from emergency.

Wee gott our ship in the best posture of defence that suddain emergent necessity would permitt. — Great Pirate Stories, Unknown
THE PLYMOUTH DISTRICT Britain is an emergent mass of land rising from a submarine platform that attaches it to the Continent of Europe. — The Cornwall Coast, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
HEROIC POETRY[16] I have taken the words 'Heroic Poetry' to signify the poetry of strenuous action, the art of describing in vigorous animating verse those scenes and emergent situations in which the energies of mankind are strung up to the higher tones, and where the emotions are brought into full play by the exhibition of valour, endurance, and suffering. — Studies in Literature and History, Alfred C., Sir Lyall

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