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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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†EMERGENT, n. An unlooked for, unforeseen event, emergency; “any sudden occasion” (Sc. 1825 Jam.²). Also emergant.Sc. 1703 R. Wodrow Early Letters (S.H.S.) 270:
I designed to have come in tomorrou to Edinburgh to have waited on your Lordship after this sad emergent.Sc. 1715 T. Boston Memoirs (1852) 272:
The sermons were so pat to the emergant.Mry. 1775 L. Shaw Hist. Prov. Mry. 231:
The manner of convocating them on a sudden emergent, was by the Fiery-Cross.