numen
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
numen (plural numina)
- A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
- 1671, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Chapter 4:
- 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 […]
- 1671, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Chapter 4:
- An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant.
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