Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of dipping or plunging under a liquid; immersion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Immersion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Obsolete form of immersion.

Etymologies

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Latin mersio. See merge.

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Examples

  • And the Gospel of Mark would declare that on my im - mersion, the heavens opened and I saw "a spirit like a dove descending."

    The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997

  • Disgusted, I surrender to the inevitable, let myself be driven into an im-mersion bath.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • But when Ellen tried to rescue her mind from mersion into this excess of beauty and to fix it on the small, warmly-coloured pattern of the domestic life within the room it was lost as completely and disastrously, so far as following its own ends went, in the not less excessive view of the spiritual world presented by this woman's face.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • It may have gathered marine growth, barnacles, weed, etc., and its paint may have faded and ablated from im-mersion but, clean it up, scrape off the surface and the truth will be revealed.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • It may have gathered marine growth, barnacles, weed, etc., and its paint may have faded and ablated from im-mersion but, clean it up, scrape off the surface and the truth will be revealed.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • It may have gathered marine growth, barnacles, weed, etc., and its paint may have faded and ablated from im-mersion but, clean it up, scrape off the surface and the truth will be revealed.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • It may have gathered marine growth, barnacles, weed, etc., and its paint may have faded and ablated from im-mersion but, clean it up, scrape off the surface and the truth will be revealed.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • It may have gathered marine growth, barnacles, weed, etc., and its paint may have faded and ablated from im-mersion but, clean it up, scrape off the surface and the truth will be revealed.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • It may have gathered marine growth, barnacles, weed, etc., and its paint may have faded and ablated from im-mersion but, clean it up, scrape off the surface and the truth will be revealed.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • It may have gathered marine growth, barnacles, weed, etc., and its paint may have faded and ablated from im-mersion but, clean it up, scrape off the surface and the truth will be revealed.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

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