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divine

di·vine

UK/dɪˈvaɪn/ US/dɪˈvaɪn/ common

adjective

1.

emanating from God

  • “divine judgment”
  • “divine guidance”
  • “everything is black1 or white...satanic or godly” Saturday Review
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2.

resulting from divine providence

  • “providential care”
  • “a providential visitation”
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3.

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;”
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4.

devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity

  • “divine worship”
  • “divine liturgy”
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5.

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
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6.

of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration

  • “her pies were simply divine”
  • “the divine Shakespeare”
  • “an elysian meal”
  • “an inspired performance”
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noun

2.

a clergyman or other person in religious orders

verb

2.

search by divining, as if with a rod

  • “He claimed he could divine underground water”

Origin

From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

Phrases

  • argument from divine hiddenness
  • Book of Divine Worship
  • countenance divine
  • Divine Adoratrice of Amun
  • divine afflatus
  • divine coincidence
  • divine command theory
  • divine contentment

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