manifestation
- noun
- /ˌmænɪfɛˈsteɪʃən/
- Literature
- During the séance, a manifestation of a spirit appeared, surprising everyone present.
- manifestation of a spirit
- manifestation of God
- a divine manifestation
And I don't see why it should not be possible for a God to to have manifestations in both realms.
- And I don't see why it should not be possible for a God to to have manifestations in both realms.
- God himself was utterly familiar from his earlier manifestation as Yahweh, jealously insisting on no other gods.
- And the spirit there is the abstraction of the central animating principle from multiple embodiments of its manifestation.
Examples
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And the physical manifestation of this dark spirit can be forced back into the rift.
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There's something in that house, a manifestation.
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Yeah, would you be willing to speak directly to the manifestation?
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Would it be some kind of a visual manifestation?
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I believe it was a demonic manifestation.
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What if you could prove that the supernatural was merely a manifestation of what already exists in the mind, the subconscious?
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Everything they've experienced has been a manifestation of the demonic.
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Instead, it was predicated on the physical manifestations of the spiritual world.
Academic text (2018) -
Alison, I believe in spirits, but I do not believe in corporeal manifestations.
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God assumed the form of the serpent as a manifestation of His wholeness, encompassing both good and evil.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
A person or thing becoming visible in public, for example on stage
A ghost that people see suddenly
A spirit that appears in a visible or bodily form
Antonyms
How Visible
- Literature
- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Manifestation comes from Latin words that give the idea 'made visible', as in manifest and manual, so it carries the sense of something appearing. So a manifestation of a spirit is when the spirit 'shows itself' in a visible form.