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genii

[jee-nee-ahy]

noun

  1. a plural of genius.



genii

/ ˈdʒiːnɪˌaɪ /

noun

  1. the plural of genius genius

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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?

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It turns out that swifts, beloved genii locorum of bright summer streets, are just as much nocturnal creatures of thick summer darkness.

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One of her fortes, as she notes herself in her introduction, is “playing with genii locorum … places with minds of their own.”

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The baffled genii could not figure out what was happening. 

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The women, of course, were all fearfully alarmed, some believing that they were real soldiers, others that they were genii in the form of soldiers.

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