promanation

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English

Etymology

From pro- + Latin manatio (a flowing), from manare (to flow).

Noun

promanation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of flowing forth; emanation.
    • 1848, John Howe, The Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A.:
      yet the first being the Original, the second being by that promanation necessarily and eternally united with the first.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for promanation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)