Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of entering, as into union or incorporation with something; a passing into or within.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of entering; entrance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of
entering orintruding - noun metaphysics The process by which a
potentiality enters intoactuality - noun biology The inward migration of cells from the
blastula duringgastrulation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now our first impression is that at last we have come to the simple plain fact of where the object really is; and that the vaguer relation which I call ingression should not be muddled up with the relation of situation, as if including it as a particular case.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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You may have noticed that I am using the term 'ingression' to denote the general relation of objects to events.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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It paints woman as passive participant in the sexual act, where that participation amounts only to accepting the invasive ingression upon her core.
V Is For Vulva (That’s Good Enough For Me) | Her Bad Mother 2007
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God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them.
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It paints woman as passive participant in the sexual act, where that participation amounts only to accepting the invasive ingression upon her core.
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It paints woman as passive participant in the sexual act, where that participation amounts only to accepting the invasive ingression upon her core.
Archive 2007-10-21 2007
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“But about the alleged ingression, I insist: calibrations of the dates of divergence of genes is no small issue…”
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Some may find it scandalous that theological ideas should be taken seriously in a book on philosophy; I find it no more scandalous than the ingression into philosophy of scientific ideas from
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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It was no annihilation, no temporary absorption into the Universal Consciousness, no ingression into the Divine Shadow, that the child experienced.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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'Yes, but supposing: a complete transmogrification -- by some unimaginable ingression or enchantment, by nibbling a bunch of roses, or whatever you like to call it?'
The Return Walter De la Mare 1914
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