daimon

英語编辑

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daemon in mythology 與 tutelary deity

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A spirit house – a shrine to the protective spirit of a place – on the island of Ko Kho Khao in Phang Nga Bay, Thailand

詞源编辑

古希臘語 δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”) 的現代羅馬化，以將其古希臘意義與後來的概念 demons 區分開來。

發音编辑

(標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈdʌɪməʊn/
- 音頻（英國）（文檔）
(通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈdaɪˌmoʊn/
斷字：dai‧mon

名詞编辑

daimon (複數 daimons)

demon之同義詞，特別是：
1. (希臘神話) 守護一個人或一個地方的神祇
  - 1890 January, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “Over the Teacups”, 出自 The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, 卷 LXV, 期 CCCLXXXVII, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, →OCLC，頁號 121:
    All at once, my daimōn—that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.
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  - 1891, W[alter] J[ames] Hoffman, The Mide’wiwin or “Grand Medicine Society” of the Ojibwa, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC，頁號 163:
    The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.
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  - 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy: And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, book I, chapter 27:
    Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.
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  - 1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, “Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America”, 出自 Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 卷 1, 期 1, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →OCLC:
    He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.
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