Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Emergence \E*mer"gence\, n.; pl. {Emergences}.
   The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from
   envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden
   uprisal or appearance.

         The white color of all refracted light, at its very
         first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors.
                                                  --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.

         When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. --H.
                                                  Brooke.