Divinity
[dɪ'vɪnɪtɪ] or [dɪ'vɪnəti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being divine; 'ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs'.
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Editor: Miles--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Marsha
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Deity, Godhead, divine nature, divine essence.[2]. Theology, science of divine things.
Checker: Wayne
Definition
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.
Typist: Theodore
Examples
- My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And in every one of them is a streak of divinity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was then a matter for the divinity schools. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- 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. Plato. The Republic.
- He would hear services intoned before this divinity, and certain precepts, which would be dimly familiar to him, murmured as responses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Was she not my divinity--the angel of my career? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That there was, indeed, some malign divinity in that hideous carcass! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Is not love a divinity, because it is immortal? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- 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. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What he was doing seemed supreme, he was almost like a divinity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The ape-man knew no god, but he was as near to worshipping his divinity as mortal man ever comes to worship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- No more is needed to completely shatter the last remnant of my superstitious belief in the divinity of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And is not love a gift of the divinity? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To the very end of the story the divinity of kings haunted the Egyptian mind, and infected the thoughts of intellectually healthier races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I don't like divinity, and preaching, and feeling obliged to look serious. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Caliphronas, Justinian, and Alcibiades are all their divinities, not a poor poet like me, who shrinks from their scampish ways. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Ursula