immanifest en · ADJ
Etymology
From im- + manifest.
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) Not manifest.
The first from the beginning of the world unto the general deluge of Ogyges, they term Adelon, that is, a time not much unlike that which was before time, immanifest and unknown
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:And because it remains a mystery to us, to whom naught else is mysterious except God, we conjecture that it is the thing upon which God meditateth, self-obscured and centred, and because of which He hath held himself immanifest to us for so many aeons; that this is the secret which God keepeth even from the seraphim."
1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Ebony and Crystal, The Demon, the Angel, and Beauty: