Definition of "emanation" []

• The act or an instance of emanating. (noun)
• Something that issues from a source; an emission. (noun)
• Chemistry Any of several radioactive gases that are isotopes of radon and are products of radioactive decay. (noun)

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• "The term emanation, being itself a metaphor, has been, and is still, used in many senses, and frequently by writers who are not emanationists."
• "From all which it follows, that this author is grossly ignorant of the true philosophical sense of the term emanation; sometimes applying it to one thing, and sometimes denying it of another; but both at a venture, and just as people use to do at blindman's buff. ""
• "Hell, the Commerce Clause must have an emanation from a penumbra or something to allow them to do that."