Definitions
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- adjective
divine
Etymologies
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From the Latin numen ("divine will, god"), from -nuere ("to nod").
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Examples
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We are merely a fluttering, fiery gap between the numinal darkness that contains, as a womb, the Creation of all.
On Divine Attention 2006
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(“Metempirical knowledge” is meant to designate all forms of knowl - edge of a transcendent, numinal, nonempirical sort.)
AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968
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