immanation

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English

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Etymology

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From im- (in) + Latin manare (to flow). Compare mantio (a flowing).

Noun

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immanation (plural immanations)

  1. A flowing or entering in.
    Antonym: emanation
    • 1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture II. On the Nature and Duration of the Soul, as Explained by Popular Traditions, and Various Philosophical Speculations.”, in The Book of Nature. [], volumes III (Series III. Nature of the Mind: [].), London: [] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, [], →OCLC, page 35:
      If we turn to the oldest hypotheses of the East,—to the Vedas of the Bramins and the Zendavesta of the Parsees,— [] we shall find indeed a full acknowledgement of the immortality of the soul, but only upon the sublime and mystical doctrine of emanation and immanation, as part of the great soul of the universe; []
    • 1977, Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm:
      [] that the world is immanation, that God is in the thing, and eternally present here, if nowhere else.

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