Antonyms for ingress
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : in-gres |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪn grɛs |
Definition of ingress
Origin :- mid-15c., from Latin ingressus "an advance; walking; an entry," from past participle stem of ingredi "to step into, enter" (see ingredient). The verb, sometimes said to be American English, is attested from early 14c.
- noun the act or right of entering
- noun opening
- The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- They told him they could give him ingress at a point in the long walls leading to Lechaeum.
- Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon
- Any other mode of ingress was impossible for any beast of burden.
- Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
- There were for a few days much hurry and bustle, both of egress and of ingress.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- It was as though an invisible barrier had been raised to prevent his ingress.
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
- Yet the workman must have entered by some ingress—if only Dick could discover it!
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
- Neither are there any not equally subject to the ingress and egress of mortality.
- Extract from : « The Civilization Of China » by Herbert A. Giles
- He looks about him, and discovers that is the door of egress, not of ingress.
- Extract from : « The Angel and the Author - and Others » by Jerome K. Jerome
- But Renwick was not sure that there was no other means of ingress.
- Extract from : « The Secret Witness » by George Gibbs
- People go too often now-a-days to make their ingress or egress of consequence.
- Extract from : « The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb » by Charles Lamb
Synonyms for ingress
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