irruption

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Meaning

A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea.

A sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders; as, the irruptions of the Goths into Italy.

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The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. Elizabeth Hand

The landing of the white man on Madagascar inflicted injury without measure. The consequences of that irruption of Europeans onto Madagascar were not psychological alone, since, as every authority has observed, there are inner relationships between consciousness and the social context. Frantz Fanon

It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge. Jacques Maritain

Revelation is the fulgurant irruption of a knowledge that comes, not from an individual or collective subconscious, but on the contrary from a supra-consciousness, which though latent in all beings nonetheless immensely surpasses its individual and psychological crystallizations. Frithjof Schuon

the outbreak of hostilities Source: Internet

the recent irruption of bad manners Source: Internet

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