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hengellinen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • devotional adj Relating to religious worship or spiritual devotion.
  • numinous adj Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity.
  • pneumatic adj Operated or inflated by compressed air.
  • spiritual adjective Relating to the soul, religion, or matters beyond the physical world.
  • spiritualist noun Someone who believes it's possible to communicate with the spirits of the dead.

Senses

hengellinen is used for these senses in English:

  • devotional (usually, religious) Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.
  • numinous Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity. [from mid 17th c.]
  • pneumatic Spiritual; of or relating to the pneuma
  • pneumatic (gnosticism) In the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man, the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).
  • spiritual Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
  • spiritual Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
  • spiritual Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
  • spiritualist Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.

devotional — full definition

  1. adj Relating to religious worship or spiritual devotion.
  2. noun A short piece of writing or a brief service intended for private religious reflection.

numinous — full definition

  1. adj Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity.
  2. adj Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-inspiring.

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