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  • as ingift
  • as ingod

synonyms for numen

  • ability
  • accomplishment
  • endowment
  • acquirement
  • aptness
  • attainment
  • attribute
  • bent
  • capability
  • capacity
  • faculty
  • flair
  • forte
  • genius
  • head
  • instinct
  • knack
  • leaning
  • power
  • propensity
  • set
  • specialty
  • turn
  • Allah
  • the Almighty
  • the Creator
  • daemon
  • deity
  • divinity
  • Father
  • idol
  • Jehovah
  • Lord
  • the Maker
  • master
  • power
  • providence
  • spirit
  • Yahweh
  • Absolute Being
  • demigod
  • Divine Being
  • Holy Spirit
  • infinite spirit
  • Jah
  • King of Kings
  • omnipotent
  • prime mover
  • tutelary
  • universal life force
  • world spirit
On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to numen, such as: ability, accomplishment, endowment, acquirement, aptness, and attainment.

antonyms for numen

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  • failing
  • shortcoming
  • weakness
  • inability
  • incapacity
  • incompetence
  • ineptitude
  • ineptness
  • lack
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How to use numen in a sentence

Another of the oaths prescribed by command of Caligula was “per numen Drusillæ.”
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMAN
The populus was the tree of Hercules, and the plane-tree was the “numen of Atridæ.”
CULTUS ARBORUMANONYMOUS
Nil praeter nubes et coeli numen adorant.They worship clouds and firmament alone.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 3 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)
At id neque fleri potest, neque Christi sanctissimum numen approbat.
THE LUSIADLUS DE CAMES
The universe is directed by a ‘vis animae divina’ or ‘divinum numen’ (i. 250, 491).
THE STUDENT'S COMPANION TO LATIN AUTHORSGEORGE MIDDLETON
Pliny said of History: "Quanta potestas, quanta dignitas, quanta majestes, quantum denique numen sit historiae."
PUBLICATIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY, VOLUME I (OF 14)MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
I laughingly observed, that the "Nullum numen abest" had been honoured with an unexpected illustration.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE -- VOLUME 57, NO. 351, JANUARY 1845VARIOUS
Remember your own motto, 'Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia'.
THE PG EDITION OF CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS TO HIS SONTHE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Duplex apud poetas antiquiores habebatur hujusce nominis numen.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, VOLUME IVARIOUS
For the idea of a numen supremum did not exclude belief in the existence and manifestation of subordinate deities.
HISTORY OF DOGMA, VOLUME 1 (OF 7)ADOLPH HARNACK
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO NUMEN

  • ability
  • accomplishment
  • acquirement
  • aptness
  • attainment
  • attribute
  • bent
  • capability
  • capacity
  • endowment
  • faculty
  • flair
  • forte
  • genius
  • head
  • instinct
  • knack
  • leaning
  • numen
  • power
  • propensity
  • set
  • specialty
  • turn
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.