exurgent

comparative more exurgent · superlative most exurgent

1. obsoleteArising or emergent.

   Determining exurgent controuersies in a Synod.

   1619, John Favour, Antiquitie Triumphing

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   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.

   1916, Benjamin C Moomaw, edited by Thornwell Jacobs, The Oglethorpe story, →OL, page 142

   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.

   1920, Robert Briffault, “Aristocracy”, in The English Review, volume 31, number 12, page 528

   He lies, he lies, beginning to arise / Exurgent is his might...!

   2021, "Poleball" (pseudonym), Kohlzine, volume 1, number 17, page 20