emanation

How to use emanation in a sentence

• It hinges on the assumption that the Vatican or its metaphysical emanation, the Holy See, is a state.

  Prosecute the Pope | Geoffrey Robertson | April 1, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST

• I do not know whether the females in this species be subject to the periodical emanation.

  Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

• I speak of sound as a material emanation, because whatever sound comes to us through the ear comes from some material source.

  Beyond | Henry Seward Hubbard

• On his way back he encountered Miss Mercy Chant by the church, from whose walls she seemed to be a sort of emanation.

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy

• The peaceful nocturnal roar of the city, dwindling every moment now, reached them like an emanation from another world.

  The Regent | E. Arnold Bennett