Surgent

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Surging; rising.

    "[…] the critical edge of a surgent Marxist scholarship emerged during the early 1970s with an imaginative grandeur and sweeping power."

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"[…] the critical edge of a surgent Marxist scholarship emerged during the early 1970s with an imaginative grandeur and sweeping power."

Etymology

From Latin surgens, present participle of surgo (“rise, get up”).

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