emanant

[ em-uh-nuhnt ]

adjective

1. emanating or issuing from or as if from a source.

Other Words From

• non·ema·nant adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of emanant¹

First recorded in 1605–15; from French or directly from Latin ēmānant- (stem of ēmānāns “outflowing,” present participle of ēmānāre ), equivalent to ē- “out of, from” + mān- “to flow” + -ant- present participle stem; e- ¹, -ant

Example Sentences

Mind as “emanant volition,” in unison with matter and law, the “seat of law,” to use an expression of Professor Boole’s, may prove the highest conception of force.

From Project Gutenberg

When the primal space was evacuated, the surrounding Light of the Infinite, and the Light immitted into the void, did not touch each other; but the Light of the Infinite flowed into that void through a line or certain slender canal; and that Light is the Emanative and emitting Principle, or the out-flow and origin of Emanation: but the Light within the void is the emanant subordinate; and the two cohere only by means of the aforesaid line.

From Project Gutenberg

Sed intendunt ad proportionem ex illo resultantem, quem numerum naturalem et formalem et rationalem vocant; ex quo magna sacramenta emanant, tam in naturalibus quam divinis atque coelestibus….

From Project Gutenberg

He does not appear to have thought to inquire whether they had dyspepsia, and how it affected them, being engrossed in that more important question, viz., what ideas they were possessed withal, how wrought out, and what part these emanant volitions of the lords of intellect played in the mighty drama of Human Life.

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