numen
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Great they knew was “Jupiter Best and Greatest” of conquering Rome; and great the numen of the Cæsar, to which everywhere in this rich and servile province shrines were rising.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
The word thus gradually lost its original meaning; the nameless local genii became an expression for the universality of the divinum numen and were sometimes identified with the higher gods.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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
"Non numen habes si sit Prudentia,—eh, O'Kelly?" said Conway.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
I do not say that he or any other numen was the better for the change.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
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