The word ‘manifestation’ has been part of the English language since the 1400s. It comes from the verb ‘to manifest’ meaning ‘to show something, to make something visible’; (somewhere in the background as the source of this is an Anglo-Norman French word meaning ‘to make something publicly known’.)
But this very old word has now been given a rather different twist.
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