daimon
IPA: dˈeɪmʌn
noun
- Synonym of demon, particularly as
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit that watches over a person or place.
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Examples of "daimon" in Sentences
- Seeing sal with the new girl makes me want to call daimon and apologize.
- A daimon is a divine sign given to an individual (Phaedrus, 242B) or it is
- [1775] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit.
- There is a being called a daimon who is either identical with theos or is the power or agency of theos (Homer).
- To conjure your "daimon" or consult your "genius" is comparably to enter into that dialogue which constitutes self-consciousness for
- Hence, the hitherto morally ambivalent or neutral word daimon acquires an almost exclusively evil connotation in the monotheistic context.
- It may be remarked that the name of Daeva is an instance of that change from a good to a bad sense which is seen in the case of the Greek word daimon.
- The personality is the vehicle of the daimon, which is not confined within the limit of the personality, and for which the birth and death of the personality are of no importance.
- Milton's admirable economy in working this truth into his great poem (i. 378) affords a sublime exposition of the mind of the Fathers on the origin of mythologies.] [1774] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit.
- "Satan," in Greek "daimon" because he is a spiritual being possessed of extraordinary powers, also "diabolos," because he is a calumniator who accuses those whom he has deceived with false sin, the being whom Augustine said possesses intelligent reasons for what he urges others to do.
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