Emanation

Word EMANATION
Character 9
Hyphenation em a na tion
Pronunciations /ˌɛməˈneɪʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Emanation"

What do we mean by emanation?

The act or an instance of emanating. noun

Something that issues from a source; an emission. noun

Any of several radioactive gases that are isotopes of radon and are products of radioactive decay. noun

The act of flowing or issuing from a fountainhead or origin; emission; radiation. noun

In philosophy: Efficient causation due to the essence and not to any particular action of the cause. Thus, when the trunk of a tree is moved, the branches go along with it by virtue of emanation. Hence — The production of anything by such a process of causation, as from the divine essence. noun

That which issues, flows, or is given out from any substance or body; effiux; effiuvium: as, the odor of a flower is an emanation of its particles. noun

In algebra, the process of obtaining the successive emanants of a quantic. noun

Specifically, in radioactivity, an unstable gaseous disintegration-product spontaneously produced from a radioactive substance. noun

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. noun

That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence. noun

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. noun

That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower. noun

Radon noun

(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost noun

The act of emitting; causing to flow forth noun

Something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.) noun

The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.

That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.

The element radon.

The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.

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The word "emanation" in example sentences

The term emanation, being itself a metaphor, has been, and is still, used in many senses, and frequently by writers who are not emanationists. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

From all which it follows, that this author is grossly ignorant of the true philosophical sense of the term emanation; sometimes applying it to one thing, and sometimes denying it of another; but both at a venture, and just as people use to do at blindman's buff. " ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

Hell, the Commerce Clause must have an emanation from a penumbra or something to allow them to do that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You'll notice Volokh's linked post, for example, doesn't mention it at all, preferring to vibe on an emanation from the 2nd as a possible hook for a right to prevent your own death. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As Blake's concept of emanation is developed in The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem, the term generally refers to a separate female part of a character that appears or emanates in the state of existence often referred to as generation, a state defined, in part, by sexual division and generative reproduction. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The rate of diffusion of the thorium emanation is even less satisfactorily determined; but it also appears to be high. ❋ Unknown (1966)

And it is not inconceivable that the still more unstable emanation from the matter named actinium by Debierne and emanium by Giesel may be found to possess an even higher atomic weight than uranium; judging by the phenomenon of brilliant illumination when a preparation of emanium is held above a screen of zinc sulphide, the impression is formed that a very dense matter is falling down on the screen. ❋ Unknown (1966)

Subsequently we had a meeting in the City of New York and have begun the organization to celebrate that outstanding event, not precisely as an emanation from the President himself, but as a matter in which for the second time in their joint history Great Britain and the United States of America came together for a beneficent purpose. ❋ Unknown (1921)

His religion was an emanation from the heart, a child of personal experience, and not a formula of the head. ❋ Unknown (1869)

It was as if there had been an emanation from the mind, like that from the body. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Creation is "emanation" -- the overflow of God's excess of goodness. ❋ Ralph Barton Perry (1916)

The book is so much hoo-hah, of course, and the review confirms it ( [The author] regards every act of the Bush administration as a direct emanation from the psyche of George W. himself. ❋ Rinku (2004)

God's power of emanation, which is creative, although simple in its origins and principle, is complex in its effects. ❋ Führer, Markus (2009)

(It may be noted, however, that sometimes the word emanation is used in a broader sense including also creation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The change of the emanation into helium and radium A proceeds fairly rapidly: the half-life period of the emanation is a little less than four days. ❋ M. M. Pattison Muir (N/A)

This "induced radioactivity," as it may be called, is found to be due to the emanation, which is itself radioactive (it emits - rays only), and is decomposed into minute traces of solid radioactive deposits. ❋ Unknown (1922)

In it we find the doctrine of the eternity of matter as a positive principle of being; the concept of a multitude of spirits ranged hierarchically between God and matter and mediating between them; the denial of Providence in the commonly accepted sense; the doctrine that each of the heavenly spheres is animated; the notion of emanation or extraction, as a substitute for creation; and, finally, the glorification of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

In thus attempting to combine Jewish religious doctrine with the notion of emanation, he introduced into his philosophy elements which are logically incompatible. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

These intelligences were derived, they said, from the One by a process of emanation, which is akin to the "streaming forth" of light from the illuminating body. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The emanation was the odour of bad whiskey -- and, worse still, of low comedy -- the sort that small humorists manufacture by clothing the grave and reverend things of legend and history in the vulgar, topical frippery that passes for ❋ O. Henry (1886)

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