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English
Etymology
From im- (“in”) + Latin manare (“to flow”). Compare mantio (“a flowing”).
Noun
immanation (plural immanations)
- 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 & 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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