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Numen

noun
(pl. numina)
1.
A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion).





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"Numen" Quotes from Famous Books



... 25.—Arrived here last night at seven. Our halls are silent compared to last year, but let us be thankful—when we think how near the chance appeared but a week since that these halls would have been ours no longer. Barbarus has segetes? Nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia. There shall be no lack of wisdom. But come—il faut cultiver notre jardin.[96] Let us see: I will write out the "Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee"; I will sketch a preface to La Rochejacquelin for Constable's Miscellany, ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott


Words linked to "Numen" :   religion, faith, numinous, disembodied spirit, spirit, religious belief


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