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emanation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɛməˈneɪʃən/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin exder. Latin ē Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-no-der. Latin mānō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin mānāre Latin ēmānārebor. English emanate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English emanation From emanate + -ion.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.
  2. (countable, uncountable) That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.
    • Her love for Francis Evelyn was an emanation of that romance which is in the heart of every girl; her preference was as much circumstance as choice, and strengthened by no comparison. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 90:
    • Hence, not only men, but all animals, and even vegetables, were supposed to be impregnated with some particle of the divine nature which was infused into them, and from which their various qualities and dispositions, as well as their powers of propagation, were thought to be derived. These appeared to be so many emanations of the divine attributes, operating in different modes and degrees, according to the nature of the beings to which they belonged. 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 25:
    • Perfume is an emanation from a flower.
  3. (obsolete, uncountable) (physics, chemistry) The element radon (Rn)
  4. (countable, uncountable) The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.

Forms

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Deriveds

actinium emanation · emanationist · thorium emanation · emanationism · radium emanation · emanational

Relateds

evolution

Translations (23)

de Ausdünstung (that which flows) · pl emanacja (that which flows) · fr émanation (radon — see also radon) · fr radon (radon — see also radon) · it emanazione (that which flows) · de Ausströmung (that which flows) · bg излъчване (act of flowing) · de Emanation (act of flowing) · pl emanacja (radon — see also radon) · hi प्रसर्ग (act of flowing) · de Emanation (that which flows) · hi प्रसर्जन (act of flowing) · de Ausstrahlung (that which flows) · fr émanation (act of flowing) · pl emanacja (act of flowing) · bg еманация (that which flows) · es emanación (act of flowing) · it emanazione (act of flowing) · de Aussendung (that which flows) · fr émanation (that which flows) · es emanación (that which flows) · hi निःसरण (act of flowing) · de Ausströmen (act of flowing)