Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: emanate
IPA transcription: ['ɛmən,eɪt]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: emanate
    Meaning: proceed or issue forth, as from a source; "Water emanates from this hole in the ground"
Usage examples
  • Whence did they emanate?
  • "There is this deep, tremendous link,--some secret power they emanate that keeps me well and happy and--alive.
  • The magistracy, being equally the ministers of the law of the land, from whatever source it might emanate, would doubtless be as ready to guard the national as the local regulations from the inroads of private licentiousness.
  • He never even talked of love, but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely and irresistibly to the heart. The beam of the eye, the tone of voice, the thousand tendernesses which emanate from every word and look and action,--these form the true eloquence of love, and can always be felt and understood, but never described.