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/ˈtɛmənɒs/ · noun
(chiefly Ancient Greece) Ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct..
The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.
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Temenos means (chiefly Ancient Greece) Ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct..
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The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.
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