Main definitions of daemon in English

1(in ancient Greek belief) a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans.

1. 1.1An inner or attendant spirit or inspiring force.
   ‘Socrates claimed to have lived his life according to the dictates of his daimon’
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   • ‘That's how the spirit is controlled - daemons are fiercely independent beings, if they can get away - they will.’
   • ‘Casey's brain kicked into gear, her inner daemons flagging something from an old puzzle book.’
   • ‘They ‘send’ - via Mercury - those inner daemons that are bent on shaking up and shattering limiting preconceptions of who we are and what our role in life is.’
   • ‘But the idea that Socrates introduced a ‘new god’ was probably a reference to his daimon, an internal individual guiding spirit which he claimed always stopped him when he was about to do something wrong.’
   • ‘He wasn't so sure that the welding of artist and model improved the art, that her sudden fetish for Captain Hunt's bete-noir would inspire the strumming fingers of her daemon.’
   • ‘The Latin equivalent of daimon is genius, the spirit double that is born and dies with a man and influences his conduct.’
   • ‘We follow that inner voice, that angel-like soul (that daimon, as Plato called it) - or, stifled, we can become demonic.’
   • ‘‘Every human has a daemon that amplifies their talents and protects them to a certain degree,’ said Cameron.’
   • ‘Baudelaire the poet has a special daimonic vision insofar as the poet has insight into the daimon described by Hesiod as unseen by the one being influenced.’
   • ‘Baudelaire's mystical vision, especially in the analogy to the cat as sign and symbol of the daimon, leads to a sense that ecstasy is possible when the self is aware of its own limitations and seeks to go beyond them.’
   • ‘Meeks' own concluding essay, The Christian Proteus, reminds us of the shape-changing aspect of Paul, a daimon who questions us just when we think we are questioning him.’
   • ‘It was his daimon who intervened in the Phaedrus, after Socrates had argued that it was better for a boy to yield to a man who did not love him than to a lover.’
   • ‘Like the daimon of Socrates who indicates only what not to do, we too know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended.’
   • ‘Thanks to the daimon who kept him from swallowing Reformist preaching in his youth, future readers will never view him as a convert.’
   Synonyms

   inspiring force, genius, numen, demon

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