hierophantic
- a word derived from hierophant.
Example Sentences
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This is hierophantic theater, as old as time, as young as the infancy of man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abundant information is also supplied on this subject by that hierophantic naturalist, Aldrovandus, de Quadrup.
From Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
But at the word Of the ancient, sacerdotal Night, Night of the many secrets, whose effect - Transfiguring, hierophantic, dread - Themselves alone may fully apprehend, They tremble and are changed.
From Poems by Henley, William Ernest
Their lofty fantastic head-dresses, their voluminous and beautiful costume, and the solemn immobility of their hierophantic attitudes make them at first sight seem marvellous statues only.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
And as at dusk and dawn the great menhirs of Stonehenge fill with a mysterious, granitic life, seem to be praying priests of stone, so about these gathered hierophantic illusion.
From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham
