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immanent

/im-uh-nuhnt/US // ˈɪm ə nənt //UK // (ˈɪmənənt) //

即时的,迫在眉睫,即将发生的,即将到来的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : remaining within; indwelling; inherent.
    • : Philosophy. taking place within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it.Compare transeunt.
    • : Theology. indwelling the universe, time, etc.Compare transcendent.

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Examples

  • They need God to feel immanent, nearly material like a Greek deity, while we need God to be thought ineffable and mysterious.

  • And yet there was a likeness, not so much speaking as immanent, not so much in any particular feature as upon the whole.

  • Through its immanent psychical power it is to exercise magical coercion over the soul of the god or the saint.

  • The development, moreover, is not immanent in religion; it is the result of external causes.

  • This entire social complex has been subsumed under the principle that law is immanent in all history.

  • The spiritual life is thus individual and over-individual, historical and over-historical, transcendent and immanent.