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immanent, a.|ˈɪmənənt|
[ad. late L. immanēnt-em, pres. pple. of immanēre, f. im- (im-1) + manēre to dwell, remain. Cf. F. immanent (14th c.).]
1. Indwelling, inherent; actually present or abiding in; remaining within.
In recent philosophy applied to the Deity regarded as permanently pervading and sustaining the universe, as distinguished from the notion of an external transcendent creator or ruler.
immanent principle (with Kant), a principle limited to the realm of experience: opposed to transcendental principle.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 3460 Quhen our foirfather fell, Drawing vs all, in his loynis immanent, Captive from gloir. 1610T. Higgons Serm. Pauls Crosse (1611) 13 He hath an immanent loue dwelling in him. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. B ij, That we may forget to distinguish betwixt evills immanent and evills imminent. 1659Pearson Creed (1741) 86 The power of miracles cannot be conceived as immanent or inhering in him. 1836Blackw. Mag. XXXIX. 454 The man Whose form enshrouding immanent Deity Mourned from the cradle to the cursed tree! 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 310 They have not cared to recognize it [the external world] as the shrine of immanent Deity. 1898J. R. Illingworth Divine Immanence iii. 71 It remains then that we..conceive of God as at once transcending and immanent in nature.
2. immanent act (action): an act which is performed entirely within the mind of the subject, and produces no external effect; opposed to a transient or transitive act. Now rare.
This distinction, formulated in Scholastic philosophy, is the connexion in which the word most freq. occurred during the 17th and 18th centuries.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 5 The workes of God, which are either inward and immanent, or outward and transient. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 28 The internal and immanent Faculties and Acts of the reasonable Soul..are Intellect and Will. 1785Reid Intell. Powers ii. xiv. (1803) I. 306 Logicians distinguish two kinds of operations of the mind; the first kind produces no effect without the mind, the last does. The first they call immanent acts; the second transitive. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1870) II. xxv. 118 A cognition is an immanent act of mind. 1847De Quincey Milton v. Southey & Landor Wks. XII. 177 In metaphysical language, the moral of an epos or a drama should be immanent, not transient..it should be vitally distributed through the whole organisation of the tree, not gathered or secreted into a sort of red berry..pendent at the end of its boughs.
Hence ˈimmanently adv., in immanent manner.
a1711Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 73 Immanently will'd Within thy glorious self the Fiat pass'd. |