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noun

Manifestation n.

The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding.

That which manifests; a phenomenon which gives evidence of something hidden; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation; the delayed manifestation of a disease. "The secret manner in which acts of mercy ought to be performed, requires this public manifestation of them at the great day."

The materialization or apparition of a spirit; a phenomenon claimed to be seen by spiritualists.

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Etymology of 'Manifestation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manifestation" Quotes from Famous Books

... as a blind or intelligent force or agency, must precede its own manifestation; that is, must exist as an operating cause before ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... thinkers the life of the imagination, and even of the emotions, has been perhaps too long lived at second hand, received from the artist ready made and felt. To-day, owing largely to the progress of science, and a host of other causes social and economic, life grows daily fuller and freer, and every manifestation of life is regarded with a new reverence. With this fresh outpouring of the spirit, this fuller consciousness of life, there comes a need for first-hand emotion and expression, and that expression is found for all ...

— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison

... seasons are less obtrusive on spots of this kind than amid woodland scenery. Still, to a close observer, they are just as perceptible; the difference is that their media of manifestation are less trite and familiar than such well-known ones as the bursting of the buds or the fall of the leaf. Many are not so stealthy and gradual as we may be apt to imagine in considering the general torpidity ...

— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... imprisonment terminated on the prorogation of parliament, vast crowds collected, and a procession was arranged to convoy him to his home. Place had been active in arranging all the details of what was to be a great popular manifestation. To his infinite disgust, Burdett shrank from the performance, and went home by water. The crowd was left to expend its remaining enthusiasm upon the hackney carriage which contained his fellow-sufferer Jones. Jones, in the following December, was sentenced to twelve ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen

... a particular bias, I was struck with the mention of a childish fancy in the early years of the foundress of the Order of Helpers of the Souls in Purgatory,—a new community, which has sprung up during the last ten years, and has a history well worth relating. To many this fresh manifestation of the spirit of the Church on earth, and of its close affinity with the suffering Church in Purgatory, has come as a wonderful blessing and consolation, and inspired them with a grateful regard for these new oblates and victims of charity to ...

— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier

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