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Emerʹgency

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A sudden emergency is something which starts suddenly into view, or which rises suddenly out of the current of events. (Latin, e-mergo, to rise out of “the water.”)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Embarras de Richesse
Ember Days
Ember Weeks
Emblem
Emblems of the Jewish Temple
Embryo
Emelye
Emerald Isle
Emeralds
Emergency
Emergency Man (An)
Emeute (French)
Emile
Emilia (in Shakespeare’s Othello)
Emilie (The divine)
Emmet
Emne
Emolument
Emotion
Empanel