What's the difference between divine and heavenly?

Divine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
  • (a.) Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
  • (a.) Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
  • (a.) Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies.
  • (a.) Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
  • (a.) Relating to divinity or theology.
  • (a.) One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
  • (a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
  • (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
  • (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage.
  • (v. t.) To render divine; to deify.
  • (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
  • (v. i.) To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
  • (v. i.) To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
  • (2) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
  • (3) Back then they claimed a divine right to rule over Afghanistan.
  • (4) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
  • (5) As Labour has no real polices that I can divine, the idea of making it less testosterone-driven somehow interested me.
  • (6) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (7) Baum (a surgeon), Bass (a psychiatrist), Whitehorn (a journalist), and Campbell (a professor of divinity) comment on the case as presented and on three hypothetical complicating situations involving the girl's request for plastic surgery to please her abusive father, the possibility of pregnancy, and physical injury from sexual assault.
  • (8) It's almost like a divinely inspired Hemingway writing in those parts.
  • (9) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
  • (10) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
  • (11) "But North Korea is not moving towards a collective system: it's all about the one leader … It's the divine right of Kims."
  • (12) A poor citizen can’t even find one kilogramme of rice on the street,” he said, arguing that the country’s rulers would face divine judgment for what they were doing to the poor.
  • (13) Everyone knew that if he'd wanted to he could have become professor of divinity at St Andrews, but academia was too dry for him.
  • (14) On 15 September, business leaders from Bridgeport, Connecticut – a down-at-heel port town on Long Island Sound - gathered just outside town in the Friendship Baptist Church to pray for divine intervention in a matter of business.
  • (15) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
  • (16) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
  • (17) Fuelled by latent ambition (and maybe a bit of that coke), Joan – with the help of some divine Cosgrovian intervention – decided she could turn her hand to producing ads.
  • (18) I'd get it from a shop called Hanna in Beirut – just divine.
  • (19) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
  • (20) Its method permits access to the subjective, individual aspects of the development of belief and of the relationship to the divinity, as well as to the critical moments of their developmental reorganization.

Heavenly


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.
  • (a.) Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.
  • (adv.) In a manner resembling that of heaven.
  • (adv.) By the influence or agency of heaven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
  • (2) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
  • (3) Oh, heavens no, it would be too depressing, and it was East German territory anyway.
  • (4) The best charm shows water next to Heaven and then items representing qualities of Air, Earth and Water.
  • (5) I knew I could get 58 mid and I knew that, if the heavens were on my side, I could get a 58 low but to be the first person under 58 ...
  • (6) The facial appearance is similar to a Renaissance cherub with its gaze toward heaven.
  • (7) "All the talk of heaven and hell and redemption helped to start people talking," says Tharcisse.
  • (8) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
  • (9) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
  • (10) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
  • (11) One official wrote: "An article like this would be a heaven-sent opportunity to those who wish to get maximum publicity out of this incident to argue that the coroner was biased and for this reason the inquest was unsound."
  • (12) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
  • (13) He said two pieces of evidence were crucial in persuading the jury that Samsung had intentionally copied elements of Apple's iPhone functionality: minutes of a meeting in South Korea with Google, which had warned senior Samsung executives to "pull back" from their tablet designs because they were too close to Apple's; and internal emails from Samsung executives which said that the difference between the iPhone and Samsung's smartphones was "heaven and earth", and that the two needed to be moved closer.
  • (14) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
  • (15) So while Labrinth, Heaven 17, The Proclaimers and Billy Bragg are playing on stage, kids will probably be more interested in the freesports park, Mr Tumble, the new Dance Space, junior football tournament, Insect Circus and kids' comedy club, to name but a few of the dozens of attractions.
  • (16) But while the public is convinced it doesn’t go far enough, the major parties have actually resisted most calls for greater scrutiny – independent oversight or, heaven forbid, a federal version of Icac .
  • (17) She will be looking down now from the heaven she undoubtedly believed in, and smiling.
  • (18) The village primary school and the heavens were going to open at the same time – and both were going to be equally welcome.
  • (19) While others decried his work, he wrote that his paintings “move and mingle among the pale stars, and rise up into the brightness of the illimitable heaven, whose soft, and blue eye gazes down into the deep waters of the sea for ever”.
  • (20) He added: “James Wharton is an ambitious politician – but heaven help him if he ever has to deal with a truly hostile press.