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Manifestation   /mˌænəfɛstˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Manifestation  n.  
1.
The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding.
2.
That which manifests; a phenomenon which gives evidence of something hidden; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation; the delayed manifestation of a disease. "The secret manner in which acts of mercy ought to be performed, requires this public manifestation of them at the great day."
3.
The materialization or apparition of a spirit; a phenomenon claimed to be seen by spiritualists.





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"Manifestation" Quotes from Famous Books



... density is mind incapable of affecting matter directly. We must, it seems to me, always postulate some sort of etheric medium through which mind acts, in order to affect and move matter—organic or inorganic. And without this vital intermediary there can be no action, and consequently no manifestation." ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington
... hitherto discovered has been too trivial to reward the search. The early inhabitants of the island were not ignorant of its presence; but its occurrence on a memorable occasion, as well as that of silver and copper, is recorded in the Mahawanso as a miraculous manifestation, which signalised the founding of one of the most renowned shrines at the ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... of strength of which, possibly, he was not aware himself. When Mr. Challoner, still more affected by the silence than by the dread I have mentioned, turned to confront him again, it was to find his features composed and his glance clear. He had conquered all outward manifestation of the mysterious emotion which for an instant had laid his proud ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green
... peculiar manifestation in the air, which, whatever respect and reverence it might carry to the honest brethren of 13,476, seemed only to increase the wonder and astonishment ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... her immediate enjoyment of the aristocratic assurances that the Hitchcock position had given her in Chicago, showed markedly in contrast with the tentativeness of Mrs. Hitchcock. Louise Hitchcock handled her world with perfect self-command; Mrs. Hitchcock was rather breathless over every manifestation of ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick


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