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
Vale, virorum ornatissime, neque dedigneris quod colere audeam Genii tui serenitatem supplex tam tenuis, et, quoniam numen quoque hoc de se non negat, amare etiam.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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
But then, Nullum numen abest, si sit Prudentia.
From A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh by Defoe, Daniel
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
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