Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Emerge

Emerge , intransitive verb

[Latin emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge.]

To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.
Thetis... emerging from the deep. — Dryden
Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. — Burke