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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Together with all the novelty, the innovating and improving skill, which has made Canachus remembered, an attractive, old-world, deeply-felt mysticity seems still to cling about what we read of these early works.
From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays 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
Flavian had caught, indeed, something of the rhyming cadence, the sonorous organ-music of the medieval Latin, and therewithal something of its unction and mysticity of spirit.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Walter Pater
From the lilies of mysticity it extracted dirt.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
It is conjectural, however, whether the conception was more monstrous than that which subsequent mysticity evolved.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
