manifestation

plural manifestations

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of becoming manifest.

   The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.

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   Rather, the genuinely historical lies in the appearing of the phenomenalizing cogitatio, an appearing that does not refer back to pregivennesses; that is, the genuinely historical lies in the manifestation of noetic-noematic consciousness.

   2012, W. Mckenna, R.M. Harlan, L.E. Winters, Apriori and World, page 101

2. countableuncountableThe embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.

   This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.

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   Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades involves winding the leis around the couple’s hands to bind them together.

   2013 August 30, Kat Kinsman, “Something borrowed: Wedding traditions from around the world”, in CNN

   Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.

   2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257

3. countableuncountablemedicineThe symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
4. countableuncountableA pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration or to prevent people from accidentally walking into it.
5. countabledateduncountableA political demonstration or protest.

   “The Printers Union published a communique branding General Radescu and those who took part in the manifestation as ‘fascists.’”

   1949, Reuben H. Markham, Rumania Under the Soviet Yoke, page 458

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   The nationalist parties were also busy during the whole of April preparing a manifestation for the 3rd of May, the centennial anniversary of the “constitution of 1791.”

   1891 June 28, “Russian Chronicle”, in Free Russia, number 11, page 16

   There were anti-Semitic riots at several of the High Schools and manifestations among the unemployed graduates emerging from those institutions.

   1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 134

6. countableinformaluncountableWilling something into existence (See manifest (verb)).

   I don't believe in manifestation.