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[ noun ] a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in
Examples "the recent irruption of bad manners" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times - granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside - are correct ; but all_too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took_place in the early first millennium . |
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[ noun ] a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population
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