Emerge /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Emerged; p. pr. & vb. n. Emerging

1. 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.

   Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society.