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Numen
//ˈnuː.mən// noun
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Noun
- 1 A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
"The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]"
- 2 a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) wordnet
- 3 An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendent.
"[…]but never did the places or the persons turn into idols for my irrational worship. It was only the numen in them that I loved, who, as I passed by abstracted, whispered some immortal word in my ear."
Etymology
From Latin nūmen.
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