mystic
adjective
involving or characterized by esoteric, otherworldly, or symbolic practices or content, as certain religious ceremonies and art; spiritually significant; ethereal.
mysticity
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a word derived from
mystic.
Example Sentences
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But the manifestations of modern pessimism were checked by constitutional mysticity.
From Celibates by George (George Augustus) Moore
"A deep mysticity brooded over real things and partings," marriages and many acts and accidents of life.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
Nevertheless, the simple realism of the Roman ritual by no means meant, for him who could see, the absence of mysticity.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
Certain portions of that bread and wine were taken into the bishop's hands; and thereafter, with an increasing mysticity and effusion the rite proceeded.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater
Rather it recalled one to the suggestive and sane mysticity which inheres in all common things, in all common uses.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
