numinous

Example Sentences

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These soldiers “have no ears,” a numinous voice told Sitting Bull.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Kirk was after something cooler, grander, more numinous and entirely of the moment: celebrity as a celebration of itself, untethered to any specific skills or accomplishments.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

What they made me think of, instead, was the 19th century, and in particular the paintings of Winslow Homer, who depicted the sea often, giving it a numinous quality that could be dangerous or comradely.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2023

The fruit in those same kitchens looked numinous in the morning light.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

As is usually the case, people with special abilities emerged to assist travelers through the portal to the numinous.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann