numen

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"Non numen habes si sit Prudentia,—eh, O'Kelly?" said Conway.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

O Christe, numen unicum ut discrepantum gentium O splendor, O virtus Patris, mores et observantiam, O factor orbis et poli, linguas et ingenia et sacra, atque auctor horum moenium! unis domares legibus.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

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.

Nuere should therefore express a simple exercise of will-power, and numen is the being119 exercising it.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

And again he says, speaking of God's care, "Quis enim potest—quam existimet a deo se curari—non et dies, et noctes divinum numen horrere?"

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony