occult powers

collocation in English

meaningsofoccultandpower

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occult
noun
uk
/əˈkʌlt/us
/ˈɑː.kʌlt/
the study of magic or ...
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power
noun
uk
/paʊər/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofoccultandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Hope's death and the use of his body parts for medicine raises the crucial issue of beliefs regardingoccultpowerwhich played themselves out in struggles between coloniser and colonised.
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Its discussion of the imagination occurs in a chapter on the occult powers of nature that comes, appropriately, right after a presentation of therapeutic miracles.
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Yet, anybody with political power and/or economic success needs powers within the realm of witchcraft and, in these cases, occult powers may be a source of admiration.
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He was credited with occult powers which allowed him to foretell the future and so assist military operations.
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They are wise, profound, psychic, maybe with occult powers, and are courageous and inventive.
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More and more, she wanted to believe that he had occult powers and could do anything.
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It may also be described as a belief in malignant occult powers possessed by certain people.
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That mysterious person with occult powers told him that he had hidden spiritual powers of becoming a medium.
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He also has the ability to mimic the personality of whatever he's shifted into and seems to have somewhat occult powers as well.
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The section on practices of magic or sorcery is less absolute, specifying attempts to tame occult powers in order to have supernatural power over others.
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If he draws the mandala and insets the secret charms, he will attain mastery of those occult powers appropriate to the mighty powers of the particular charms and mandalas used.
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