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divine English

Meaning divine meaning

What does divine mean?
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divine

Something related to a god.

divine

(= godly) emanating from God divine judgment divine guidance everything is black or white...satanic or godly — Saturday Review being or having the nature of a god the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers — J.G.Frazier the divine will the divine capacity for love 'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create — J.G.Saxe (= providential) resulting from divine providence providential care a providential visitation (= godlike) appropriate to or befitting a god the divine strength of Achilles a man of godlike sagacity man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers — R.H.Roveref (= elysian, inspired) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods her pies were simply divine the divine Shakespeare an elysian meal an inspired performance perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers search by divining, as if with a rod He claimed he could divine underground water devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity divine worship divine liturgy (= cleric) a clergyman or other person in religious orders

Divine

(= Godhead) terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

Synonyms divine synonyms

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Topics divine topics

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Conjugation divine conjugation

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divine · verb

Examples divine examples

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Simple sentences

To err is human, to forgive divine.
The cake tastes divine!
And is not the bodily pain which follows every excess a manifest declaration of the divine will?
It was a divine intervention.
The dream rattled Tom. He took it as a divine warning.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
What divine weather!
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
That meal was simply divine.
Hinduism has a divine Trinity along with millions of lesser gods.

Movie subtitles

It will be divine.
Oh, you're too, too divine.
You, my dear, have the divine gift of silence.
It may be part of the divine plan.
I'm handcuffed and speechless in your presence divine.
If you want to hear a good speech, you ought to hear Father Divine.
Chris, that's a divine hat. That's the best looking hat I've seen in a week.
Ninotchka, surely you feel some slight symptom of the divine passion?
Isn't it divine?
For you've shown that your hearts are too withered. to receive the love of your divine Father.
Fear of divine retribution.
You're a divine and ridiculous woman. George, you'll push if we get started, won't you?
Sins and misfortunes are divine guarantees.
This divine light they talk about. What is Divine Light?
As divine as ever?
I imagine the honourable divine objects to their morals.
Divine.
Oh, this is too too divine.
What a divine life our Mrs. Topper must live. She must have a thrill a minute.
Isn't this divine of Mary and the little girl? Let's see.
Simply divine. Go on.
You'll be able to study the flow of the new line. as it responds to the ever-changing glow of the female form divine.
It's strait difficult sincerely to interpret this is a visitation of the divine spirit or is a revelation of a transcendental world.
Are not they all somehow. divine?
What a divine sense of humor!
All of this lying' sure is gonna get me in bad with Father Divine.
You must've searched for weeks before you found anything as divine as Punchy.
We'll go down have a little talk with Mother Divine and that phony zombie son of hers.
For you've shown that your hearts are too withered to receive the love of your divine Father.
Simply divine.
Farewell, farewell, divine Zenocrate!
And look divine!

News and current affairs

Not all ideological hawks are religious, although those who are base their claim on divine promises and prophecies.
The archaeology of early modern and Neanderthal populations suggests that we are not the chosen people who received from God the light, the divine mandate to go forth, multiply, and eliminate their subhuman neighbors.
Myths about his wartime heroism and divine status soon followed, and a cult of personality was established.
So, if the OMT scheme is not feasible under current treaty provisions, these provisions - which, after all, are of human, not divine, origin - must be amended.
Many people consider it outrageous, even blasphemous, to deny the divine origin of morality.
Either some divine being crafted our moral sense, or we picked it up from the teachings of organized religion.
Perhaps a divine creator handed us these universal elements at the moment of creation.
The tradition of natural law offers an answer that was familiar to medieval scholars, for whom natural law was knowable to us by our natural reason (as opposed to those laws that could be discovered only through divine revelation).
Her sentence was roundly supported by modernist Muslim intellectuals, who insisted that the punishment was justly applied and cannot be questioned because it has divine sanction.
Indeed, perhaps the fundamental definition of religious faith is the believe that life serves a (divine) purpose.
As an expressive act of religious mania, organized hatred is rooted in a collective revelation of divine order and the duties arising from it, along with the promise of eternal reward for those who are unconditionally committed to fulfilling God's plan.
The Soviet Union did not dissolve into violence, as most other empires have - an outcome for which no explanation short of divine intervention or sheer luck seems to suffice.
And the semi-divine Japanese Emperor was brought down to earth.
In this case, divine suffering serves as an exemplar of the selflesshumility with which earthly misfortunes should be endured.
True, given complex risk factors and idiosyncratic policy preferences, it has been particularly challenging of late to divine the logic underlying big exchange-rate swings.
As with the Church or the divine right of kings, the system cannot be challenged without undermining the infallibility of its perfect leaders.
Despite horrific twentieth-century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.
After decades - indeed, centuries - of employing such tricks, physicists have forgotten that they are modeling phenomena, not necessarily uncovering Divine Truth.
Leprosy is thus an infectious disease; it is not hereditary, let alone a divine punishment.
Ultimately, divine authority trumps political authority.
This dual authority is embedded in the Islamic Republic's constitution, and inevitably tilts toward the divine, particularly in a president's second term.
Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past.
The conflict between Hirohito's divine and secular roles became most acute in the autumn of 1941, when Japan's leaders debated whether to go to war with the United States and its allies.
Many people consider it outrageous, even blasphemous, to deny the divine origin of morality. Either some divine being crafted our moral sense, or we picked it up from the teachings of organized religion.

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