Hypertext Webster Gateway: "emanation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Emanation \Em`a*na"tion\, n. [L. emanatio: cf. F. ['e]manation.]
1. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or
origin. --South.
Those profitable and excellent emanations from God.
--Jer. Taylor.
2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a
source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation
from a flower.
An emanation of the indwelling life. --Bryant.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
emanation
n 1: something that is produced by emanation
2: the act of emitting [syn: {emission}]
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