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noun (num, ina)
- a divinity, especially a local or presiding god
- 1965: Where were Secretaries James and Foster and Senator Joseph, those dear daft numina who"d mothered over Oedipa"s so temperate youth? " Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- 1985: It was the solid and immovable tabernacle of the living numen whose son he had known, though but briefly and not intimately, in the flesh, and whose message he accepted with all his heart. " Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
Etymology: Latin numenLatin, numen.
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