daimon
noun
daimonic
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a word derived from
daimon.
Example Sentences
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What is the relation of the daimonic element to the personality which comes and goes?
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
In the intermediate tragedy of blood, the circuitous action had been preserved, and withal the revenge was attained only in the general catastrophe, by that daimonic "fortune" on which Montaigne so often enlarges.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
Diotima, the priestess, awakened in Socrates the daimonic force which was to lead him to the divine.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
One who becomes conscious of the daimonic element within him does not recognise it as innocent and in its first stage.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
The march into Russia is the return upon the daimonic spirit of its primitive instincts.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
