Definition of "ingress"

Looking about him while in this state of suspense, Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest people, was very difficult.

1859, Charles Dickens, “In Secret”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], book III (The Track of a Storm), page 168

Now could be beheld that change from the handsome to the curious which the features of a wood undergo at the ingress of the winter months.

1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in The Woodlanders […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887

I could find no means of ingress. Every window and door was fastened and locked, and I returned baffled to the porch.

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library

Accordingly, anti-Israeli terrorists turned to city transport. Railway systems depend on easy ingress and egress at numerous points along the route.

2005 July 22, Mark Lawson, “Public enemy number two”, in The Guardian‎

My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress. And then, from unseen lips, a cruel and mocking peal of laughter rang through the desolate place.

1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co.; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September,

"Were you asleep? Did I disturb you?" he would ask, seeing Fyodor flat on his back on the sofa, and then, ingressing entirely, he would shut the door tightly behind him and sit by Fyodor 's feet

1963, Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift: A Novel‎, page 198

When the tub was full I ingressed into the water gently, insinuating my body in a bit at a time, enjoying the sensual pleasure of the extreme heat on the lower part of my body […]

2001, Lynda Schor, “My Death”, in Moyra Davey, editor, Mother Reader‎, page 310

"We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden.

1976, The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories‎, page 108

We were ingressing the target area.

1998, Michael William Donnelly, Falcon's Cry‎, page 93

The middle of March finds " Mars ingressing upon the 16th degree of Capricorn, where the sun has arrived in the nativity of Lord Palmerston," […]

1861 December 28, “Almanacs”, in All the Year Round‎, volume VI