numen, numinis, n. a nod of the head; the will or power of the gods; divinity

Aeneid 1.8-9, quo numine laeso (with what offense to her (Juno's) divinity..?). cf. nutus, a nod of the head, downward motion, command. Eng. numinous, filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence. Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy, p. 174, re Otto Rudolph: 'He held that numinous experience - experience of the uncanny that is strongest and most important in cases in which it seems to its subject to be experience of God - is unique in kind.'