Numen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈnjuː.mən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Numen is a noun meaning A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
Meaning
A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
More Meanings
- An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendent.
Example Sentences
Where were Secretaries James and Foster and Senator Joseph, those dear daft numina who’d mothered over Oedipa’s so temperate youth?
It was the solid and immovable tabernacle of the living numen whose son he had known, though but briefly and not intimately, in the flesh, and whose message he accepted with all his heart.
[…]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.
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 […]
Word Forms
- numina
Related Words
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