Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, a sacred inclosure or precinct; a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god; a precinct, usually surrounded by a barrier, allotted to a temple or sanctuary, or consecrated for any other reason.
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- noun A
sacred circle where one can be himself without fear.
Etymologies
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Examples
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According to the Temenos Project, which launched the effort, a temenos is “a magical sacred circle where special rules apply and extraordinary events inevitably occur.”
Think Progress » Coulter guilty of “textbook plagiarism” 2006
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The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos .
Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert' Christian C. Sahner 2011
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The most important part of the interior of the temenos is the group of the three figures which are represented in relief on the inside face of the enclosure wall on the farthest part, opposite the doorway.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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She had a sacred place ( "temenos"), though without
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903
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This is a sacred "temenos," an inviolate grove, set apart to some god; and within the fences of the compound no mortal dare set foot under pain of direful sacrilege and pollution.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903
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We are standing in one, the limestone-based Southern Temple, which in its central temenos rests a large stone alter, where one can only imagine what took place.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011
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We are standing in one, the limestone-based Southern Temple, which in its central temenos rests a large stone alter, where one can only imagine what took place.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011
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They exist in a special time and space (temenos) with rules (rubrics) and rituals.
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They exist in a special time and space (temenos) with rules (rubrics) and rituals.
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As if to have it both ways, he nevertheless insisted that, as the soul of matter, the analysis of the psyche was the analysis of the container (temenos) of matter, which is to say that within which the natural sciences are contained.
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