英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˌɛməˈneɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: e‧ma‧na‧tion

名詞

emanation (countable and uncountable, plural emanations)

1. The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.
2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.

   Perfume is an emanation from a flower.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 90:

     Her love for Francis Evelyn was an emanation of that romance which is in the heart of every girl; her preference was as much circumstance as choice, and strengthened by no comparison.

   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 25:

     Hence, not only men, but all animals, and even vegetables, were supposed to be impregnated with some particle of the divine nature which was infused into them, and from which their various qualities and dispositions, as well as their powers of propagation, were thought to be derived. These appeared to be so many emanations of the divine attributes, operating in different modes and degrees, according to the nature of the beings to which they belonged.

3. (uncountable, obsolete) (physics, chemistry) The element radon (Rn)

   Hyponyms: radium emanation, thorium emanation, actinium emanation

4. (theology) The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.

派生語

参考

• evolution

アナグラム

• anamniote