numinous
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4ADJ.
own
VERB + NUMINOUS
interest
NUMINOUS + NOUN
esteem
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in
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adj
Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity.
His interest in numinous objects led him on a quest for the Holy Grail.
The fetish of Huitzilopochtli, bundled up and screened from profane eyes, now preceded the wandering group, carried on the back of his oracle-priest or sorcerer who alone was holy enough to handle safely the numinous object.
Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-inspiring.
The Will of a King is very numinous; it hath a kind of vast universality in it, it is many times greater than the will of his whole Kingdom, stiffened with ill Counsel and ill Presidents: […]
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. In the songs Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard sang was either some fraction of the truth's numinous beauty (as Mucho now believed) or only a power spectrum.
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3His interest in numinous objects led him on a quest for the Holy Grail.
WiktionaryThe fetish of Huitzilopochtli, bundled up and screened from profane eyes, now preceded the wandering group, carried on the back of his oracle-priest or sorcerer who alone was holy enough to handle saf
WiktionaryHe held his own body in numinous esteem.
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