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What does irruption mean?

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Noun
  1. The action of irrupting or breaking into; a violent entry or invasion; an inbreaking; an intrusion.
  2. An abrupt increase of numbers of a particular animal.
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He nailed me for calling it a migration as opposed to an irruption.
The body must become a transparent sign of a living Presence: our consecrated life is a parable of the irruption of the Kingdom of God in history.
This object, aligned with Evil, is a thing of desire for us, an outlet for the irruption of Evil.
We picture the vision, then, as an irruption of hypnosis into the visual sphere.
The Transfiguration, observed traditionally in this last Sunday before Lent, brings Epiphany to a close with another divine irruption into the earthly.
The instinct is to preserve the status quo against this irruption, not to see the irruption as constitutive of the status quo.

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