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I like numnums.
Damn :-(
It took a second to realize this word was not numnums.
"'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
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.