numen

• The translation has often given cause for dispute, as 'numen' is a word that may be translated as vague-sounding Providence, as a rather non-commital Deity or as the strict and fierce monotheistic God. —  WordPress.com Top Blogs
• [224] 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 Numen is so important a word in the Roman religion that it is necessary to be perfectly clear as to what was meant by it. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• Nuere should therefore express a simple exercise of will-power, and numen is the being exercising it. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• [240] Does the existence of such priests come into relation with the development of the idea of a deus out of a numen or a spirit? —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• I do not say that he or any other numen was the better for the change. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms