nomen
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Becciu explained this tradition during his testimony by invoking its Latin phrase “In odiosis non faceat nomen pontificis,” roughly meaning that the pope shouldn’t be drawn into unpleasant matters.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2022
Whatever showdown battle metaphor you like best, that’s what it is going to be like if the words Qui sibi nomen imposuit Pius are used to introduce the next pontiff.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2013
We have met to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University,— clarum et venerabile nomen .
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I'm afraid our nomen are a thousand times more harmful than the American yes-men.
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As the old man stretched out his hands to bless the people, his voice rung clear and full in the night: "Sit nomen Dei benedictum."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
It is contrary to the idea of nouns with מ, that they could be used as nomina actionis.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
Woodlark, Raii nomina: Alauda arborea: In January, and continues to sing through all the summer and autumn.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
As the various Aryan families separated, the sense of the old words and names became dim, the nomina developed into numina, the names into gods, the descriptions of elemental processes into myths.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew
It is the triumph of the theory of nomina numina; we need not return to it.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
The first, whose principal though not sole champion is Max Müller, holds that myths are the result of a disease of language—words become things, "nomina numina."
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen