loci

Though he is never called to testify, Key is the genius loci of this suit.
The Stacks: The Judas Priest Teen Suicide Trial|Ivan Solotaroff|June 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Genii protect individuals and places: springs, hills, cities, and army barracks all had a genius loci, a genius of the place.
What is a Genius?|Nick Romeo|November 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
For Isabel Otis the genius loci had a more powerful and enduring magnetism than any man or woman she had ever known.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
But the genius loci here impresses on the trade in discarded odds and ends a peculiar character of its own.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science|Various

The genius loci, the Chevalier himself, was not the last to welcome this prime stay and ornament of his establishment.
The Fortunes of Nigel|Sir Walter Scott
The genius loci would move the very stones to preach on such a theme.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson|Charlotte M. Yonge
Madzu Pennu, or the village deity, the universal genius loci.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies|Robert Gordon Latham

British Dictionary definitions for loci

loci

/ (ˈləʊsaɪ) /

noun

the plural of locus

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