Definition of "numina" []

• Plural of numen. (noun)

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• "But with narratives designed to enact reader/writer wish-fulfillment and paranoid neuroses, the role of monstra and numina is pretty self-evident; it's of more interest when these quirks are part of the narrative dynamics."
• "There is no Athena to order off the Furies for Calcutta, no merciful justice, no dictum numina."
• "The whole trilogy becomes an argument by demonstration that the resolution of a ruptura monstrum does not come from another ruptura (and another and another) but from the complementary response of a dictum numina."