numen
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The only certain result that we can win from the study of these adjectival titles is that they represent a transition between animism and polytheism, a transition exactly expressed by the one word numen.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
"Non numen habes si sit Prudentia,—eh, O'Kelly?" said Conway.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
Hither Numa came to visit the forest-gods Faunus and Picus at their sacred fountain: Lucus Aventino suberat niger ilicis umbra, Quo posses viso dicere, numen inest.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Est aqua Mercurii port� vicina Capen�; Si juvat expertis credere, numen habet.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Jn al fulsum hed sulen it ben numen.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
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