genii
Americannoun
noun
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And how could they be in any art that is, above and beyond all else, a celebration of genii loci, spirits of place?
From New York Times • May 4, 2023
It turns out that swifts, beloved genii locorum of bright summer streets, are just as much nocturnal creatures of thick summer darkness.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2020
The presiding genii of this particular work include Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, Alice Miller and, above all, Virginia Woolf and the British psychoanalyst DW Winnicott.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2012
The registration spells the Latin word "genii", meaning magical person or being.
From BBC • May 15, 2011
It is further to be noted on this point that the somnambulist is thus brought into rapport with two genii and a twofold set of ideas, his own and that of the magnetiser.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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