exodus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐξ- (ex-)
Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
Proto-Indo-European *sodós?
Proto-Hellenic *hodós
Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)
Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos)der.
Latin exodusder.
English exodus
From Latin exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “expedition, procession, departure”). Doublet of exodos.
From late Old English only as a proper noun, Exodus, the biblical book; use as a common noun is from the early 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: exoduses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exodusses
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
form: exodus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exodi
pos: noun
tags: hypercorrect
plural
form: exoduses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exodusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exodused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exodused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden departure of a large number of people.
pos: noun
examples: There were no less than three exodi from Egypt. The first was the one just named, viz: the expulsion of two hundred and forty thousand Cuthites by Halisphragmuthosis; this occurred about two hundred years before the entrance of the Israelitish shepherds into Egypt. The second exodus was that of this once holy people, under the guidance of the Almighty, through his servant Moses, the account of which we have in profane history, substantiated in the minutest particulars by the sacred writings given us through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which protected and preserved the race. But the third is not so generally known.
Now if, as we have seen good reason for believing, the documents were composed within forty or fifty years after the leaving of Egypt, it is hard to believe that their authors should have been so confused and so forgetful that they confounded two city-lands so distinct and separate as Goshen and Raamses, and were ignorant as to which was really the Israelite habitat when in Egypt. There suggests itself at once the hypothetical question, Were there two exodi, one from Raamses and the other from Goshen? […] Only on the hypothesis of two exodi, one to the south, the other to the north, do the two accounts of the route out of Egypt become explainable.
At 18ʰ00′, 21 minutes before sunset, the migrants started to depart in waves as already described for other exodi; […]
Further, rural exodus, especially among young generations who refuse to engage themselves in hard, misremunerated agricultural work, is also a cause of the current crisis.
While this report acknowledged that resentment of military conscription without the provision of political rights was one reason for the exodus, it went on to recommend that the entire colonial system in Algeria needed reform to prevent future exodi.
That Artapanus was able to give the name of the pharaoh involved in his version of the story shows that this was known in his time (ca 250 BCE) and that the amalgamation of the different exodi into one epic must have taken place around that time or later.
It's a 58-minute journey with seven intermediate stops, including a reversal at Cromer - another popular destination. The train starts to empty at North Walsham, and then there is an exodus at Cromer. The coach is almost empty for the final few miles into Sheringham.
gloss: To depart from a place in a large group.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
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