Daimon vs Daemon - What's the difference?
daimon | daemon | Alternative forms |
A tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius; a lar.
* 1891, Walter James Hoffman, The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
* 1900, , Over the Teacups
* 1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America'', in ''Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature , vol. 1, no. 1
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.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.
(computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
Daemon is a alternative form of daimon.
As nouns the difference between daimon and daemon
is that daimon is a tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius; a lar while daemon is alternative form of lang=en.daimon
English
Noun
(tutelary deity) (en noun)- 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.
- All at once, my daimon —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.
- 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.