Wordie: Numinous: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 2 months ago

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:16:19 +0000

Yum.

Comment by chained_bear, 3 months ago

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:03:46 +0000

I like numnums.

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:41:25 +0000

Damn :-(

Comment by she, 3 months ago

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:25:05 +0000

It took a second to realize this word was not numnums.

Comment by chained_bear, 7 months ago

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:33:39 +0000

"'Perhaps they are assembled in the grove for some religious ceremony,' said Martin. 'Nothing more numinous than a grove, as the ancient Hebrews knew.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 241

Comment by VanishedOne, 11 months ago

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:19:51 +0000

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/08/23.html cites four examples for this word, and not one of them is by Rudolf Otto, perhaps because he originally wrote in German. His mysterium tremendum is pretty firmly associated with the numinous, though.