Numen (noun)
noo-men
A divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.
1620–30; Latin nūmen a nod, command, divine will or power, divinity; akin to nūtāre to nod the head in commanding or assent
Example sentences
“The divine numen were sometimes identified with the higher gods.”
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