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Egress   /ɪgrˈɛs/   Listen
noun
Egress  n.  
1.
The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. "Embarred from all egress and regress." "Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress."
2.
(Astron.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.


verb
Egress  v. i.  To go out; to depart; to leave.





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"Egress" Quotes from Famous Books



... that old Aaron Rockharrt would never consent to live in a place which, however beautiful it might be, was too difficult of access and egress for a man ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... is assisted by him. Owing to this the abode of that, i.e. the heart which is the abode of the soul, is illuminated, lit up at its tip, and thus, through the grace of the Supreme Soul, the individual soul has the door (of egress from the body) lit up and is able to recognise that artery. There is thus no objection to the view that the soul of him who knows passes out by way of that particular artery only.—Here terminates the adhikarana ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut
... after some industrious labour thus expended, he dismantled behind and a little above it a narrow passage, into which he crept, partly to satisfy his love of "exploring," partly in the hope that it might afford him an egress in the direction of the village. The aperture thus exposed had not, in fact, escaped the eye of St. Aubyn, when about an hour afterwards the search for the lost boy was renewed. But one of his guides, after a brief ...
— Dreams and Dream Stories • Anna (Bonus) Kingsford
... remained firmly shut for some time. Then it opened to allow the egress of one workman; then two, three, followed, but these were probably those who, well behaved, took their wages home to their wives, for they neither retreated nor started when they saw the little crowd. One woman ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... Hood intercepted Deering in the act of effecting egress by way of the front door. His fingers dug deeply into his nervous companion's arm as he dragged him along, ...
— The Madness of May • Meredith Nicholson


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