remanationn.
/ˌrɛməˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛməˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Chiefly Theology (rare).
The flowing back or return of something to the source whence it emanated; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > [noun] > again
resorption1714
remanation1765
resorbence1765
reabsorption1842
1765 J. Edwards Two Diss. i. ii. 111 In the creature's knowing, esteeming, loving, rejoicing in, and praising God, the glory of God is both exhibited and acknowledged; his fulness is received and returned. Here is both an emanation, and a remanation. The refulgence shines upon and into the creature, and is reflected back to the luminary.
1880 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 497 Its pantheistic doctrine of emanation and remanation.
1955 Church Hist. 24 56 The remanation of the divine glory and the union of the elect in Christ have a static, timeless quality about them.
2002 Harvard Theol. Rev. 95 469 All beings, including God, exist by virtue of their relationality to God's dispositional essence to emanate or communicate His love according to his eternal laws and are what they are through the quality and intensity of their own remanations of this love.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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