Associations to the word «Emanation»

Wiktionary

EMANATION, noun. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
EMANATION, noun. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.
EMANATION, noun. (uncountable) (obsolete) (chemistry) The element radon.

Dictionary definition

EMANATION, noun. Something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.).
EMANATION, noun. The act of emitting; causing to flow forth.
EMANATION, noun. (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats