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Manifestation vs Revenant - What's the difference?

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Manifestation is a related term of revenant.


As nouns the difference between manifestation and revenant

is that manifestation is the act or process of becoming manifest while revenant is someone who returns from a long absence.

As an adjective revenant is

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manifestation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of becoming manifest.
    • The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.
  • The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.
    • This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.
  • (medical) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
  • A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking in to it.

    • revenant

    English

    (wikipedia revenant)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who returns from a long absence.
  • * 1886 , Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew'' viii, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
    • They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
  • * 1895 August 31, Daily News'' 4/7, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
    • The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
  • * 2008 , Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature , Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-386-1, page 91:
    • From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant , who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him:
  • A person or thing reborn.
  • * 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 184:
    • Sometimes semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
  • A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
  • * {{quote-book, 1969, , edition=2008 ed. citation
    • , passage=Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.}}

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 1988 , (Salman Rushdie), (The Satanic Verses) , Random House (2008), page 134:
    • On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.
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