numen
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The only certain result that we can win from the study of these adjectival titles is that they represent a transition between animism and polytheism, a transition exactly expressed by the one word numen.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
Wel michil sorge is me bi cumen. ðat min two childre aren me for numen.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
O quæ frondosæ per amœna cubilia silvæ Nympha volas, lucoque loquax spatiaris in alto, Annosi numen nemoris, saltusque verendi Effatum, cui sola placent postrema relatus!
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
Wel fagen he was of here come for he was numen ðor to nome.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
G ood is quað Joseph to dremen of win. heilnesse an blisse is ðer in. ðre daies ben get for to cumen. ðu salt ben ut of prisun numen.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
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