mana
法力
Definitions
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Anthropology.
- : a generalized, supernatural force or power, which may be concentrated in objects or persons.
Examples
Melissa Cheyney, chief author of the pro-home-birth MANA study, calls the Cornell methodology “misleading.”
Government spokesman Nasser al-Mana'a insisted the government had no choice but to attack and had used proportionate violence.
This consists of "getting up" a memorial to some distinguished mana statue, it may be, or modest bust.
May your mana never be less;—long may you hold at bay the demon of civilization, though fall at last I fear you must.
A chief of very high rank, standing, and mana, was on a war expedition; with him were about five hundred men.
If the reader has not some faint notion of mana by this time, I can't help it: I can't do any better for him.
But mind you do not translate mana as power; that won't do: they are two different things entirely.