Manifest Meaning
/ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjEvident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
adjObvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
Sentence Examples
It was a manifest error of judgement.
Joy was manifest on the child's face.
He doesn't manifest much desire to win the game.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The disease will ____ through a high fever and rash within days.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The effects of the new policy began to ____ themselves in a variety of different ways across the country.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + an uncertain second element. Doublet of manifesto.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"It re-envisioned Freddy Krueger in the “real world,” where the nightmare-dwelling being is made manifest in our reality, one where Freddy actor Robert Englund and original Nightmare On Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp play themselves, as does [Wes] Craven himself."
— 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:
"Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight[…]"
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 4:13:
"Caliſtho there ſtood manifeſt of Shame, / And turn’d a Bear, the Northern Star became[…]"
— 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book II, page 47:
"But you, authentick Witneſſes I bring, / Before the gods, and your ungrateful King, / Of this my Manifeſt : That never more / This Hand ſhall combate on the crooked Shore : / No, let the Grecian Powers oppreſs’d in Fight, / Unpity’d periſh in their Tyrants fight."
— 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, pages 206–7:
"My Parts, my Title, and my perfect Soule / Shall manifeſt me rightly."
— c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312, column 1:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The disease will ____ through a high fever and rash within days.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The effects of the new policy began to ____ themselves in a variety of different ways across the country.