(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.
Sanctity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.
(n.) Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.
(n.) A saint or holy being.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spokeswoman said the church had submitted its views on the sanctity of marriage as part of the consultation, it had not anticipated that the government would act as it had.
(2) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
(3) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(4) Nurses who made a decision to feed the patient stressed mostly the principle of sanctity of life.
(5) His friend Dingle Foot drafted an editorial that David then sharpened up, inserting phrases that summed up his outlook: 'We had not realised that our government was capable of such folly and crookedness...It is no longer possible to bomb countries because you fear that your trading interests will be harmed...this new feeling for the sanctity of human life is the best element in the modern world.'
(6) This protection is not about politics, it's about the deepest of American values – the sanctity of the family and the security of our country.
(7) In the rush to acknowledge the quality of life, the sanctity of life must not be discarded.
(8) The sanctity of human life is guaranteed in Islam .” The council did not specifically condemn the Paris attacks in its statement.
(9) But for this to be possible, interest payments must always be made on time, and the sanctity of debt contracts must always take precedence over electoral promises regarding pensions, wages, and public spending.
(10) Other concerns are that people may opt for death so as not to become a burden on relatives; there is an erosion of the principle of the sanctity of life and the trust between doctor and patient could be damaged.
(11) Better to blockade and pummel from afar, if the sanctity of human life is not a concern.
(12) In The Plague, the stricken protagonists are searching for some way of being human beyond heroism and sanctity.
(13) And sometimes the guns refuse to acknowledge the sanctity of the PoC.
(14) Putin was asked to comment on rising petrol prices, the sanctity of the country's Victory Day holiday, the potential bankruptcy of a meat factory and the identity of his favourite singer.
(15) The sanctity of his life finds nourishment in the respect with which he is treated.
(16) "We've always said ... that we were for health care reform, but there was a principle that meant more to us than anything, and that was the sanctity of life," he told the press conference.
(17) The Vatican talked of "this insult to the nobility of the hearth", and Ed Sullivan on his TV show said, "You can only trust that youngsters will not be persuaded that the sanctity of marriage has been invalidated by the appalling example of Mrs Taylor-Fisher and married man Burton."
(18) This approach defeats the purpose of fighting for the sanctity of human life in current ethical debates about detention centres, because it appropriates the sanctity of the lives of those who are not here to speak for themselves.
(19) Locals cite legends about the area’s sanctity to local Native American tribes.
(20) They call for a mind-shift on the issue of "aid in dying", arguing that the church's insistence on the sanctity of life in all situations has the effect of sanctioning anguish and pain.