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Synonyms for numen
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : noo-min, nyoo- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnu mɪn, ˈnyu- |
Top 10 synonyms for numen Other synonyms for the word numen
- Absolute Being
- All Knowing
- All Powerful
- capability
- capacity
- creator
- daemon
- deity
- demigod
- demon
- Divine Being
- divinity
- faculty
- father
- flair
- forte
- genius
- head
- holiness
- Holy Spirit
- idol
- infinite spirit
- instinct
- Jah
- Jehovah
- King of Kings
- knack
- leaning
- lord
- maker
- master
- nose
- numen
- omnipotent
- power
- prime mover
- propensity
- providence
- set
- soul
- specialty
- spirit
- totem
- turn
- tutelary
- universal life force
- world spirit
- Yahweh
Définition of numen
Origin :- "divine spirit, presiding divinity," 1620s, from Latin numen "divine will, divinity," literally "a nod," from nuere "to nod" (assent); see numinous.
- As in gift : noun talent, aptitude
- As in god : noun supernatural being worshipped by people
- I do not say that he or any other numen was the better for the change.
- Extract from : « The Religious Experience of the Roman People » by W. Warde Fowler
- He looked at her, inquiring of her whole person what numen abode in the fane.
- Extract from : « Robert Falconer » by George MacDonald
- The populus was the tree of Hercules, and the plane-tree was the “numen of Atridæ.”
- Extract from : « Cultus Arborum » by Anonymous
- It would seem that every region in Italy had such a numen loci (naturally mainly agricultural).
- Extract from : « Introduction to the History of Religions » by Crawford Howell Toy
- Numen is so important a word in the Roman religion that it is necessary to be perfectly clear as to what was meant by it.
- Extract from : « The Religious Experience of the Roman People » by W. Warde Fowler
- Nuere should therefore express a simple exercise of will-power, and numen is the being119 exercising it.
- Extract from : « The Religious Experience of the Roman People » by W. Warde Fowler
- Astra castra, numen lumen—The stars my camp, the deity my light.
- Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
- For the idea of a numen supremum did not exclude belief in the existence and manifestation of subordinate deities.
- Extract from : « History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) » by Adolph Harnack
- After two days of strenuous fighting the German posts of Numen and Nola were taken, and some officers, guns, and ammunition.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
- The notion of the numen is always vague and indefinite: even its sex may be uncertain.
- Extract from : « The Religion of Ancient Rome » by Cyril Bailey
Antonyms for numen
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