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Divine   /dɪvˈaɪn/   Listen
Divine

adjective
1.
Emanating from God.  Synonym: godly.  "Divine guidance" , "Everything is black or white...satanic or godly"
2.
Resulting from divine providence.  Synonym: providential.  "A providential visitation"
3.
Being or having the nature of a god.  Synonym: godlike.  "The divine will" , "The divine capacity for love" , "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"
4.
Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity.  "Divine liturgy"
5.
Appropriate to or befitting a god.  Synonym: godlike.  "A man of godlike sagacity" , "Man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"
6.
Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods.  Synonyms: elysian, inspired.  "The divine Shakespeare" , "An elysian meal" , "An inspired performance"
noun
1.
Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God.  Synonyms: Almighty, Creator, God Almighty, Godhead, Jehovah, Lord, Maker.
2.
A clergyman or other person in religious orders.  Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic.
verb
(past & past part. divined; pres. part. divining)
1.
Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers.
2.
Search by divining, as if with a rod.



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"Divine" Quotes from Famous Books



... she was pale as marble, but how superbly beautiful! Her glossy hair, all disordered, hung in rich masses upon her uncovered shoulders; her seductive night-dress but imperfectly concealed the glories of her divine form,—her heaving bosom, so voluptuous and fair, was more than half disclosed to my gaze. With a palpitating heart I laid my trembling hand upon one of her plump, white shoulders. Never shall I forget the ...
— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson

... drag out an existence among indifferent or hostile people in an alien land. The daughter should never know, never weep when they wept, never pray when they prayed. This was retribution—not his, he only watched in silence the working of divine justice. ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers

... of one or two old masters, or once in a while perhaps in flesh and blood, transfiguring the face of some commonplace vulgar woman whom, but for that, nobody would have called beautiful. But sometimes the divine thing chooses some morsel of humanity like Mrs. Nevill Tyson, struggles with and overpowers it, rending the small body, spoiling the delicate beauty; and where you looked for the illuminating triumphant glory of motherhood, you find, as Tyson ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair

... theology,—that so many moralists have wrought their system from—Love. The errors thus originated have something in them that charms us even while we smile at the theology, or while we neglect the system. What a beautiful fabric would be human nature—what a divine guide would be human reason—if Love were indeed the stratum of the one, and the inspiration of the other! What a world of reasonings, not immediately obvious, did the sage of old open to our inquiry, when he said the pathetic was the truest part of the ...
— Eugene Aram, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... letters of blood the warning, "Abolish war or perish." Some say the war ended six months too soon, but had it continued that much longer, the probable results are too awful to contemplate. The Angel of Destruction had the sword lifted over Germany, but it was as though divine providence ...
— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols


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