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Definition of Numen
1. Noun. A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion).
Generic synonyms: Disembodied Spirit, Spirit
Derivative terms: Numinous, Numinous
Definition of Numen
1. Noun. a divinity, especially a local or presiding god ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Numen
1. a deity [n -MINA] - See also: deity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Numen
Literary usage of Numen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language: In which Its Forms are by Francis Andrew March (1877)
"Le sceal (pille) beo« numen. pê ... numen. pê sind(on) gewordene ... numen.
Present. (If) I be taken. ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"... as the supreme numen. Pan therefore is the one only God (for there cannot
possibly be more than one Pan, more than one all or universe) who contained ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1888)
"LAEDERE numen. THE words quo numine laeso in Aen. 1 8 would have occasioned less
difficulty to the commentators than they have done, if it had been ..."
4. An Ethical Philosophy of Life Presented in Its Main Outlines by Felix Adler (1918)
"CHAPTER IX HOW TO LEARN TO SEE THE SPIRITUAL numen IN OTHERS WE now have to
consider how to acquire the faculty of seeing the light that in our fellowmen is ..."
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