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Reappearance after eclipse
Answer for the clue "Reappearance after eclipse ", 8 letters:
emersion
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: egress ] [ant: ingress , ingress ] the act of emerging [syn: emergence ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"reappearance, act of emerging," 1630s, noun of action from past participle stem of Latin emergere "to rise out or up" (see emerge ). Originally of eclipses and occultations.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emersion \E*mer"sion\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]mersion. See Emerge .] The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. --Knatchbull. ...
Usage examples of emersion.
Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings.
No therapy and no plan at present, emersion in fantasy, progressive withdrawal and isolation.
The warmth of the fire was pleasant after our emersion from the cold water and our exposure to the chill of the forest night.