| 单词 | submergence |
| 释义 | submergence|səbˈmɜːdʒəns|
[f. submerge + -ence.]
a. The condition of being submerged or covered with water (also Geol., with glacier ice); the state of being flooded or inundated.
1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 305 The proofs of submergence, during some part of the tertiary period,..are of a most unequivocal character. 1851Richardson Geol. ii. 21 The submergence of land by earthquakes. 1872W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks ix. 310 After the glacial submergence. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. iii. 52 A submergence for forty seven hours had not killed the protoplasm.
b. fig., e.g. a being plunged in thought; the ‘swamping’ of one thing by another; a sinking out of sight or into obscurity.
1871Geo. Eliot Middlem. (1872) I. i. iii. 33 The secondary importance of ecclesiastical forms and articles of belief compared with that spiritual religion, that submergence of self in communion with Divine perfection. 1872F. W. Robinson Bridge of Glass iii. ix, The voice was so low, and the maiden's submergence so deep, that the grief-stricken figure did not move to the inquiry. 1898Chr. Herald (N.Y.) 27 Apr. 368/4 An idea that death is the submergence of everything pleasant by everything doleful. 1903Myers Hum. Pers. I. p. xxviii, If the elements of emergence increase, and the elements of submergence diminish, the permeability of the psychical diaphragm may mean genius instead of hysteria. |
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