Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of immitting or sending in; injection: correlative to emission.
  • noun That which is immitted or sent in.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

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  • noun The act of immitting; injection or infusion.

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Examples

  • Job i. 16, (understand it, by his permission, and Satan's immission,) yet he still kept the wool of many of them.

    Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

  • Alas! but in what sense that does not imply some infusion of power or light, something given and inwardly received, which would not have existed in and for the recipient without this immission by the means or act of the imposition of the hands?

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

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