immanationn.
/ˌɪməˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɪməˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Somewhat rare.
A flowing or entering in; the action or process of this. Also: something which enters or flows in. Cf. emanation n.
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1662 W. Jenkyn in E. Calamy Exact Coll. Serm. (new ed.) 267 An immanation or ray from that incomparable holiness that seed of God that is in them.
1726 S. Rudd Elegiac Ess. 19 O matchless Jesus, how divinely bright! Fair immanation of unclouded light!
1783 London Mag. Jan. 9/2 The seven years of my infancy were passed..without any extraordinary immanations of reason or any presages of future excellence.
a1827 J. M. Good Bk. Nature (1833) iii. i. 333 The sublime and mystical doctrine of emanation and immanation, as a part of the great soul of the universe; issuing from it at birth, and resorbed into it upon the death of the body.
a1834 C. Lamb Let. to Coleridge in R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang. (1872) I. ii. 1213/2 A quick immanation of continuous fantasies.
1908 S. Schechter Stud. in Judaism 2nd Ser. 259 The action of the first emanation, which assumes some room for immanation, became possible only by the process of the Divine Essence concentrating itself into itself.
2002 J. R. Feldman Victorian Modernism iii. 90 That immanation [of objects from the parental house to the newlyweds' house] slowly develops into Rossetti's reciprocal furnishing of his mother's house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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