Divinity
[dɪ'vɪnɪtɪ] or [dɪ'vɪnəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being divine; 'ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs'.
(noun.) white creamy fudge made with egg whites.
編輯:迈尔斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.
(a.) The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
(a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
(a.) A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
(a.) Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.
(a.) The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.
錄入:玛莎
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Deity, Godhead, divine nature, divine essence.[2]. Theology, science of divine things.
校對:韦恩
解釋/意思:
n. godhead: the nature or essence of God: God: a celestial being: any god: the science of divine things: theology.—Divinity Hall (Scot.) a theological college or the theological department in a university.
整理:希欧多尔
例句/造句/用法:
- My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- And in every one of them is a streak of divinity. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was then a matter for the divinity schools. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A new period of mortal life has begun, and you may choose what divinity you please; the responsibility of choosing is with you--God is blameless. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He would hear services intoned before this divinity, and certain precepts, which would be dimly familiar to him, murmured as responses. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Was she not my divinity--the angel of my career? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- That there was, indeed, some malign divinity in that hideous carcass! 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Is not love a divinity, because it is immortal? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Love is no mischievous urchin, who plays with his arrows; no, he is a great and terrible divinity, who comes to every mortal but once in life. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- What he was doing seemed supreme, he was almost like a divinity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The ape-man knew no god, but he was as near to worshipping his divinity as mortal man ever comes to worship. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- No more is needed to completely shatter the last remnant of my superstitious belief in the divinity of Issus. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And is not love a gift of the divinity? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- To the very end of the story the divinity of kings haunted the Egyptian mind, and infected the thoughts of intellectually healthier races. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I don't like divinity, and preaching, and feeling obliged to look serious. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Caliphronas, Justinian, and Alcibiades are all their divinities, not a poor poet like me, who shrinks from their scampish ways. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
編輯:厄休拉