All 6 Uses of
manifest
in
Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
- He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.†
Chpt 12manifesting = making obvious (or showing)
- After ten years in this town, God has manifested himself to me in the body of a woman.†
Chpt 13 *manifested = made obvious (or shown)
- The new force that had manifested itself in him had, he felt, been at work upon her and had led to her conquest.†
Chpt 16
- He still believed that God might at any moment make himself manifest out of the winds or the clouds, but he no longer demanded such recognition.†
Chpt 7
- If I am fortunate and an angel of God should appear, David will see the beauty and glory of God made manifest to man.†
Chpt 7
- He wondered if the flame of the spirit really burned in him and dreamed of a day when a strong sweet new current of power would come like a great wind into his voice and his soul and the people would tremble before the spirit of God made manifest in him.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(manifest as in: manifest destiny) obvious; or to make obvious; or to show or demonstrate
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(2)
(manifest as in: ship's manifest) an official document listing contents being transported