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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
manifestation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clinical
▪ Although we used a pragmatic primary outcome, we carefully investigated all clinical manifestations.
▪ Thus, it seems most reasonable to PostPone drug therapy of primary hyperuricemia until clinical manifestations occur.
▪ They may thus account for observable clinical manifestations.
▪ The clinical manifestations will reflect the location of the epileptogenic focus.
▪ Some of the clinical manifestations in the coeliac disease patient may be a result of carnitine deficiency.
different
▪ It is important then to realise that ischaemic heart disease has different natural histories with different manifestations.
▪ Todorov finds a variety of different manifestations of the absent essence in James's stories.
▪ Barrett was the first to suggest that these fibrotic conditions were inter-related and probably different manifestations of the same disorder.
late
▪ William Temple and Fisher at Repton were among the late manifestations of this feeling.
▪ Perinatal complications among babies born with an inherited predisposition towards schizophrenia may be implicated in the later manifestation of this disorder.
other
▪ Lichens, unlike trees, have no rings or other manifestations of annual growth.
▪ But there are other manifestations which, properly planned and resourced, can and do yield well.
▪ Like other manifestations of facilities management, these deals can save money as well as trouble, in particular by eliminating spare capacity.
physical
▪ The physical manifestation of his manhood, as always in repose, appeared a shrunken, insignificant part of him.
▪ I saw food take flight from its physical manifestation, turning into light that shot through my body.
▪ There was no physical manifestation of this, he just couldn't remember anything.
▪ When it happens, there are physical manifestations as well.
▪ And not just in your mind - the physical manifestations can also be truly horrible.
▪ When Barry came to see me, he was suffering from physical manifestations of what was obviously a great deal of pent-up aggression.
▪ A brisk walk will help use up the adrenaline which creates the physical manifestations of nervousness.
▪ There is the concern for the physical manifestation of the problem, a place-based concern for where it occurs.
various
▪ Impairment of sweating is associated with various manifestations of autonomic neuropathy with and without the presence of other symptoms such as postural hypotension.
▪ Hogan ably dissects the issues driving the various manifestations of resistance.
visible
▪ The formal disruption is itself the visible manifestation of the political demand.
▪ And so I became the single, visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Manifestation of the disease often does not occur until middle age.
▪ Some men feel that showing their emotions is a manifestation of weakness.
▪ The riots are a clear manifestation of growing discontent.
▪ This latest outbreak of violence is a clear manifestation of discontent in the city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the initial manifestation of gout, patients will often remain asymptomatic for several months to years.
▪ At the time he probably seemed instead a manifestation of resurgent royal authority.
▪ I hope this book will encourage readers to recognize the resurgence of the real in all its manifestations.
▪ I saw food take flight from its physical manifestation, turning into light that shot through my body.
▪ The loss of equilibrium is seen as being both a root cause of the crisis when it occurs and its manifestation.
▪ The physical manifestation of his manhood, as always in repose, appeared a shrunken, insignificant part of him.
▪ The recoil of a gun is also a manifestation of momentum conservation.
▪ There was no physical manifestation of this, he just couldn't remember anything.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manifestation

Manifestation \Man`i*fes*ta"tion\, n. [L. manifestatio: cf. F. manifestation.]

  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.
    --Atterbury.

  3. The materialization or apparition of a spirit; -- a phenomenon claimed to be seen by spiritualists.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manifestation

early 15c., "action of manifesting; exhibition, demonstration," from Late Latin manifestationem (nominative manifestatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin manifestare (see manifest (adj.)). Meaning "an object, action, or presence by which something is made manifest" is from 1785. The spiritualism sense is attested from 1853.

Wiktionary
manifestation

n. 1 The act or process of becoming manifest. 2 The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing. 3 (context medical English) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease. 4 A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking in to it.

WordNet
manifestation

  1. n. a clear appearance; "a manifestation of great emotion"

  2. a manifest indication of the existence or presence or nature of some person or thing; "a manifestation of disease"

  3. an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) [syn: materialization, materialisation]

  4. expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition" [syn: expression, reflection, reflexion]

  5. a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature); "there were violent demonstrations against the war" [syn: demonstration]

Wikipedia
Manifestation

Manifestation may refer to:

  • Manifestation of God, the prophets of the Bahá'í Faith
  • Avatar, manifestation of God in Hinduism
  • Glaze manifestation, the act of applying markings to make a sheet of glass obvious; see Building regulations in the United Kingdom → Part N. Glazing - safety in relation to impact, opening and cleaning
  • Manifestation (album), a 2000 compilation album by death metal band Malevolent Creation
Manifestation (album)

Manifestation is a compilation album by Malevolent Creation released in 2000.

Manifestation (Cloak of Altering album)

Manifestation is the fourth full-length studio album by Cloak of Altering, released on December 4, 2015 by Crucial Blast.

Usage examples of "manifestation".

In other words, Aristotle understood very well and very accurately the Perfect One as the Good, but not at all the manifestation of that One as Goodness or creative Plenitude.

Always their heads turned this way and that as if they expected to see dark shapes of an antlered horseman and other fell manifestations watching them from the shadows, ready to spur forward and ride them down.

The blood-vessels are the most active absorbents, eagerly appropriating nutritive materials for the general circulation, while the respiration adds to it oxygen, that agent which makes vital manifestation possible.

The greater portion of the nutriment assimilated, is required for growth and organic development, and they can ill afford its expenditure for mental manifestations.

Perhaps this is because the faculty of understanding is only one manifestation of one type of Life, in other words a part of a part, and is thus unadapted to assimilating the Whole.

Persia or elsewhere, I strongly feel that the time has assuredly come when it is incumbent upon every conscientious promoter of the Cause to bestir himself and undertake in consultation with the friends in his locality such measures of publicity as will lead to the gradual awakening of the conscience of the civilized world to what is admittedly an ignominious manifestation of a decadent age.

Faith is not so bounteous a commodity in this world that we can afford to treat even its unfamiliar manifestations with contempt.

La Tour was one of those extroverted visionaries, whose art faithfully reflects certain aspects of the outer world, but reflects them in a state of transfigurement, so that every meanest particular becomes intrinsically significant, a manifestation of the absolute.

How could Mallard help comparing these manifestations of ardent temper with what he had witnessed in Cecily?

The entity is called a manhead, because in physical manifestation it resembles a bird with the head of a man-just as a wizard in ritual costume resembles a man with the head of a bird.

The functions of the medulla oblongata, which begin with the earliest manifestations of life, are of an instinctive character.

Such deities were the Thracian Bendis, whose manifestation was heralded by the howling of her fierce black hounds, and Hecate the terrible QUeen of the realm of ghosts, as Euripides calls her, and the vampire Mormo and the dark Summanus who at midnight hurled loud thunderbolts and launched the deadly levin through the starless sky.

But their manifestations of delight were far more pronounced when Felix, taking one of the airs which he had just played as a theme for extemporisation, exhibited in a most charming fashion, and with true musicianly feeling, the capacities of the subject for varied treatment.

Alucius expected the pinkish force to appear, but the manifestation of Talent that he felt was mainly purple, with but an overshade of pink, and felt even more evil.

I keep saying ad nauseam I know, a lot of parapsychic manifestations about which we know nothing.