emanate

Definition

To come from a source; issue from.

Etymology

From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).

Example Sentences

• "Fragrance emanates from flowers."
• "[…] this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, […]"
• "that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate"

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