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Granta 152: Still Life
by Granta (editor)

Granta 152: Still Life
by Granta (editor)

Granta 152: Still Life
by Granta (editor)

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numinous (en)

(adjective) supernatural mysterious / (adjective) filled with a sense of the presence of divinity; holy / (adjective) appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense; spiritual

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Rembrandt was not alone in the Dutch Golden Age in depicting the landscape with fidelity to observed detail while at the same time imbuing it with the pervasive presence of the numinous

—p.62 Arbos (59) by Teju Cole
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Rembrandt was not alone in the Dutch Golden Age in depicting the landscape with fidelity to observed detail while at the same time imbuing it with the pervasive presence of the numinous

—p.62 Arbos (59) by Teju Cole
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piacular (en)

sacrificial, expiatory; making or requiring atonement

243

Their piacular dreams move them to strange poetries, inverted vatic insight

—p.243 Spring (242) by China Miéville
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Their piacular dreams move them to strange poetries, inverted vatic insight

—p.243 Spring (242) by China Miéville
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vatic (en)

(adjective) prophetic, oracular; describing or predicting what will happen in the future

243

Their piacular dreams move them to strange poetries, inverted vatic insight

—p.243 Spring (242) by China Miéville
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Their piacular dreams move them to strange poetries, inverted vatic insight

—p.243 Spring (242) by China Miéville
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