emergence
[ih-mur-juh ns]
- the act or process of emerging.
- an outgrowth, as a prickle, on the surface of a plant.
- Evolution. the appearance of new properties or species in the course of development or evolution.
Origin of emergence
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for reemergence
Contemporary Examples
For one thing, Weiner has benefited from a crush of media attention since his reemergence.
His upcoming CPAC speech is being billed as a reemergence, but Romney never really left.
Ghost of Mitt Romney, Hanging Around Since November, to Appear at CPACDavid Freedlander
February 21, 2013
Historical Examples
But Sordello's reemergence as leader of the crossbowmen raised another question: Would it offend the Armenians?
The Saracen: The Holy WarRobert Shea
This industrial revival is but the reemergence of the tendency which we found so manifest in the statistics of 1860.
The Rise of Cotton Mills in the SouthBroadus Mitchell
At this point our work was interrupted by the reemergence of the redistribution question.
John Redmond's Last YearsStephen Gwynn
emergence
- the act or process of emerging
- an outgrowth, such as a prickle, that contains no vascular tissue and does not develop into stem, leaf, etc
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for reemergence
emergence
n.
1640s, "unforeseen occurrence," from French émergence, from emerger, from Latin emergere (see emerge). Meaning "an emerging" is from 1704.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper