See Also: emanation(medicine)
emanation(dictionary)

emanation (iou)



emanation noun. L16.
[Late Latin emanatio(n-), formed as EMANATE: see -ATION.]
I.
The process of coming from a source; Theology the generation of the Son, or the procession of the Holy Spirit, from the Father. L16.
The action of emitting or evolving something. M18.
II.
A virtue, power, or other abstract quality (regarded as) emanating from something. L16.
b. A necessary consequence. (Foll. by of, from.) E18.
A person who or thing which emanates from God. M17.
Something that emanates from a material object, esp. something intangible; spec. a flash or beam of light. M17.
J. Galsworthy The savour, like nothing but the emanation of a refined cheese.
b. Science. A radioactive gas emitted by a solid as a product of its radioactive decay; spec. the element radon. E20.
emanational adjective M19.
emanationism noun the doctrine that the (spiritual) universe derives its existence from the essence of God and not from an act of creation out of nothing L19.
emanationist adjective of or pertaining to a theory of emanation M20.