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Definition of Emanates
1. emanate [v] - See also: emanate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emanates
Literary usage of Emanates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"As all light emanates from the sun, so all truth proceeds from God. As light is
adapted to the eye, so truth is adapted to the mind. ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"... are not. as was but recently believed, extremely remote sidereal clusters ;
but their light undoubtedly emanates from matter in a gaseous form. 4. ..."
3. Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Governor of Connecticut by Isaac William Stuart (1859)
"A Petition to Congress against Commutation, and the Impost Power, emanates fiom
the Lower House of the General Assembly, and a Convention at Middletown ..."
4. A Handbook of Modern French Sculpture by Daniel Cady Eaton (1913)
"Germain states : " From their rigid garments with their well composed folds there
emanates an immense sadness." Next to Sluter and his school come MICHEL ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
""The term 'law,* as defined by the elementary writers, emanates from the sovereignty,
and not from its creatures. The legislative power of the state is ..."
6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1835)
"On the Light cf Comets ; and on the means of deciding whether this light emanates
from these bodies themselves, or is borrowed from the Sun. ..."
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