"demersion" meaning in English

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        "The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning."
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          "text": "[T]his Sinking and Demerſion of Buildings into the Earth is a manifeſt Sign of their Antiquity, vvhich is ſo much the greater, by hovv much the deeper they are ſunk.",
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